OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethics and Information Technology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	317
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	95
Gamification and the virtue of perspective	89
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	66
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	62
Military robots should not look like a humans	61
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	51
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)	51
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’	49
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	47
Navigating the social dilemma of autonomous systems: normative and applied arguments	39
Closing the responsibility gap: allocating responsibility according to prerequisite control and expectations for personal benefits	38
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	37
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	35
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	33
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	32
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	31
Engineering responsibility	29
Virtual reality and agential moral enhancement	29
Contextual negation by moral opposition: rethinking the ethics of (Rape) simulations	29
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace	28
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	28
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	27
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	27
The global diplomacy of governing military artificial intelligence	26

Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	26
Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare	24
Correction to: Ensuring the exercise of human agency in AI-based military systems: concerns across the lifecycle	24
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’	23
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	22
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice	21
Establishing human responsibility and accountability at early stages of the lifecycle for AI-based defence systems	20
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	19
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)	19
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism	19
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy	19
Reasons underdetermination in meaningful human control	18
Algorithmic representation in virtual realities: ethical challenges and regulatory opportunities	18
Should we speak of machine agency? A case against conceptual extension	18
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act	18
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens	18
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens	18
When work becomes a game: the moral costs of gamified labor	18
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	17
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	17
Disruptive technologies, engineered concepts, and normative guidance	17
ChatGPT is bullshit	16
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions	16
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness	16
Wide reflective equilibrium in LLM alignment: bridging moral epistemology and AI safety	16
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models	16
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?	16
Is moral status done with words?	15
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers	15
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization	14
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	13
Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability	13
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context	13
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	13
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility	13
All ‘Dark patterns’ Are ‘Hostile patterns’: A Hostility Framework for Understanding Problematic Digital Interfaces	13
Digital temperance: adapting an ancient virtue for a technological age	13
Explainable AI in the military domain	12
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?	12
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems	12
Is VR a tool of liberation? addressing the ethics of VR through sociohistorical contextualization	12
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	12
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?	12
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be	12
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies	12
Ethics of sleep tracking: techno-ethical particularities of consumer-led sleep-tracking with a focus on medicalization, vulnerability, and relationality	11
Explanation and Agency: exploring the normative-epistemic landscape of the “Right to Explanation”	11
Deconstructing controversies to design a trustworthy AI future	11
Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy	10

Digital twins for children with rare diseases: an exploration of the legal and ethical issues	10
Correction to: Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making	10
Ethics of generative AI and manipulation: a design-oriented research agenda	10
Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS): meaningful human Control, collective moral responsibility and institutional design	10
Framing the Gamer’s Dilemma	10
Cognitive warfare: an ethical analysis	10
Automated opioid risk scores: a case for machine learning-induced epistemic injustice in healthcare	10
Tailoring responsible research and innovation to the translational context: the case of AI-supported exergaming	10
Transparency for AI systems: a value-based approach	9
After chronos: a new temporal epistemology for ethics in virtual reality	9
Operationalising responsible AI in the military domain: a context-specific assessment	9
Politiquette: Liberalism, identity, and free speech on AI-powered digital social media	9
Dirty data labeled dirt cheap: epistemic injustice in machine learning systems	9
Design for values and conceptual engineering	9
Responsible reliance concerning development and use of AI in the military domain	8
A systematic review of almost three decades of value sensitive design (VSD): what happened to the technical investigations?	8
Towards a comprehensive framework for ethical and responsible standardisation	8
Can we solve the Gamer’s Dilemma by resisting it?	8
Responsible scaling of artificial intelligence in healthcare: standardization meets customization	8
Role of emotions in responsible military AI	8
Gamer’s de se imaginative resistance: a descriptive–philosophical resolution to the gamer’s dilemma	8
Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: what is the problem?	8
Has the world gone botshit crazy? A response to the Frankfurtian critique of ChatGPT in higher education	7
Between death and suffering: resolving the gamer’s dilemma	7
Why a treaty on autonomous weapons is necessary and feasible	7
Easy-read and large language models: on the ethical dimensions of LLM-based text simplification	7
Correction to: the Ethics of AI in Human Resources	7
Ludic resistance: a new solution to the gamer’s paradox	7
Autonomy-supporting chatbots: Endorsing volitional behavior change	7
Conceptualizations of user autonomy within the normative evaluation of dark patterns	6
Ethics framework for predictive clinical AI model updating	6
AI and the need for justification (to the patient)	6
Human digital twins unlocking Society 5.0? Approaches, emerging risks and disruptions	6
Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI	6
Mind the gap: bridging the divide between computer scientists and ethicists in shaping moral machines	6
What is conceptual disruption?	6
Bringing values to standardisation: from policy concepts to a value-based framework for education about standardisation	6
Empathy training through virtual reality: moral enhancement with the freedom to fall?	6
AI gossip	6
Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice	6
Intended, afforded, and experienced serendipity: overcoming the paradox of artificial serendipity	6
Embracing grief in the age of deathbots: a temporary tool, not a permanent solution	6
Engineers on responsibility: feminist approaches to who’s responsible for ethical AI	5
Violent video games: content, attitudes, and norms	5
Socializing the political: rethinking filter bubbles and social media with Hannah Arendt	5
The ethics of online steering	5
Getting it right: the limits of fine-tuning large language models	5
Recommender systems as commercial speech: A framing for US legislation	5
A moving target in AI-assisted decision-making: dataset shift, model updating, and the problem of update opacity	5
The value of responsibility gaps in algorithmic decision-making	5
Artificial intelligence and humanitarian obligations	5
Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback	5
Ethics of AI in Africa: Interrogating the role of Ubuntu and AI governance initiatives	5
Robots, institutional roles and joint action: some key ethical issues	5
Moral autonomy of patients and legal barriers to a possible duty of health related data sharing	5
Dual-use implications of AI text generation	5
Melting contestation: insurance fairness and machine learning	5
The perfect technological storm: artificial intelligence and moral complacency	5
The ethics of hacking. Ross W. Bellaby	5