OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethics and Information Technology is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Blind-sided by privacy? Digital contact tracing, the Apple/Google API and big tech’s newfound role as global health policy makers	116
We need to talk about deception in social robotics!	50
Corona and value change. The role of social media and emotional contagion	46
You’ve got a friend in me: sociable robots for older adults in an age of global pandemics	37
A sociotechnical perspective for the future of AI: narratives, inequalities, and human control	35
Artificial Intelligence Regulation: a framework for governance	34
Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance	33
Trust in farm data sharing: reflections on the EU code of conduct for agricultural data sharing	32
Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment	30
Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management	29
Transparency as design publicity: explaining and justifying inscrutable algorithms	29
The ethical use of artificial intelligence in human resource management: a decision-making framework	27
Ethical dilemmas are really important to potential adopters of autonomous vehicles	26
Ethics of digital contact tracing and COVID-19: who is (not) free to go?	23
Predictive privacy: towards an applied ethics of data analytics	23
Sovereignty, privacy, and ethics in blockchain-based identity management systems	23
Digital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive design to overcome ontological uncertainty	22
Artificial intelligence and African conceptions of personhood	21
Is it time for robot rights? Moral status in artificial entities	21
Eight grand challenges for value sensitive design from the 2016 Lorentz workshop	21
Disability, fairness, and algorithmic bias in AI recruitment	20
Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context	19
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem	19
The emergence of “truth machines”?: Artificial intelligence approaches to lie detection	18
From human resources to human rights: Impact assessments for hiring algorithms	18

Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: what is the problem?	18
Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: lessons learned from the COVID-19 infodemic	18
How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners	17
Fairness, explainability and in-between: understanding the impact of different explanation methods on non-expert users’ perceptions of fairness toward an algorithmic system	16
Value sensitive design as a formative framework	16
Applying a principle of explicability to AI research in Africa: should we do it?	16
Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA): a dialogical framework for ethical inquiry of AI and data projects in the Netherlands	15
The European Commission report on ethics of connected and automated vehicles and the future of ethics of transportation	15
Disguising Reddit sources and the efficacy of ethical research	15
Towards a seamful ethics of Covid-19 contact tracing apps?	14
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	14
On the person-based predictive policing of AI	13
Contact tracing apps: an ethical roadmap	13
Trust in medical artificial intelligence: a discretionary account	13
Characteristics and challenges in the industries towards responsible AI: a systematic literature review	13
How can we know a self-driving car is safe?	13
Explanatory pragmatism: a context-sensitive framework for explainable medical AI	13
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	12
A Capability Approach to worker dignity under Algorithmic Management	12
Optimization of what? For-profit health apps as manipulative digital environments	12
Friendly AI	11
What it’s like to be a _____: why it’s (often) unethical to use VR as an empathy nudging tool	11
Digital well-being under pandemic conditions: catalysing a theory of online flourishing	11
Ethics of automated vehicles: breaking traffic rules for road safety	11
Critically engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience	11
Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making	11
Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others	11
The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation: why domain adaptation is better than data debiasing	11
Design for values and conceptual engineering	10
The artificial view: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency	10
Beyond privacy vs. health: a justification analysis of the contact-tracing apps debate in the Netherlands	10
Relative explainability and double standards in medical decision-making	10
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review	10
Putting explainable AI in context: institutional explanations for medical AI	9
Wisdom in the digital age: a conceptual and practical framework for understanding and cultivating cyber-wisdom	9
Resisting the Gamer’s Dilemma	9
What does the gamer do?	9
Instilling moral value alignment by means of multi-objective reinforcement learning	9
Why online personalized pricing is unfair	9
A fictional dualism model of social robots	9
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	9
Digitalization of contact tracing: balancing data privacy with public health benefit	9
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?	8
Ethics in the COVID-19 pandemic: myths, false dilemmas, and moral overload	8
Coupling levels of abstraction in understanding meaningful human control of autonomous weapons: a two-tiered approach	8
Automated opioid risk scores: a case for machine learning-induced epistemic injustice in healthcare	8
Reasons for Meaningful Human Control	8
Extended loneliness. When hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone	8
Positive risk balance: a comprehensive framework to ensure vehicle safety	8
The ethics of inattention: revitalising civil inattention as a privacy-protecting mechanism in public spaces	7

Towards trustworthy blockchains: normative reflections on blockchain-enabled virtual institutions	7
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	7
Perceptual breakdown during a global pandemic: introducing phenomenological insights for digital mental health purposes	7
Dual-use implications of AI text generation	6
Introduction to the special issue: value sensitive design: charting the next decade	6
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles	6
Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy	6
The value of responsibility gaps in algorithmic decision-making	6
Prospects for the global governance of autonomous weapons: comparing Chinese, Russian, and US practices	6
Corona pan(dem)ic: gateway to global surveillance	5
The ethics and epistemology of explanatory AI in medicine and healthcare	5
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	5
Special issue on Responsible Robotics: Introduction	5
The philosophy of the metaverse	5
Statistically responsible artificial intelligences	5
Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful: the cypherpunk ethics of Julian Assange	5
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	5
Automation, unemployment, and insurance	5
AI ethics and the banality of evil	4
Dirty data labeled dirt cheap: epistemic injustice in machine learning systems	4
Improving ethical attitudes to animals with digital technologies: the case of apes and zoos	4
The value sensitive design of a preventive health check app	4
May Kantians commit virtual killings that affect no other persons?	4
The possibility of deliberate norm-adherence in AI	4
Non-consensual personified sexbots: an intrinsic wrong	4
The video gamer’s dilemmas	4
Reflection machines: increasing meaningful human control over Decision Support Systems	4
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	4
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	4
Who is controlling whom? Reframing “meaningful human control” of AI systems in security	4
Virtual action	4
Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?	4
Responsible innovation in synthetic biology in response to COVID-19: the role of data positionality	4
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?	4
Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics	3
Scoping the ethical principles of cybersecurity fear appeals	3
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies	3
Problems with “Friendly AI”	3
Framing ethical issues associated with the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app: exceptionalising and narrowing the public ethics debate	3
Why a treaty on autonomous weapons is necessary and feasible	3
The seven troubles with norm-compliant robots	3
A willingness to be vulnerable: norm psychology and human–robot relationships	3
How to teach responsible AI in Higher Education: challenges and opportunities	3
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	3
Karl Jaspers and artificial neural nets: on the relation of explaining and understanding artificial intelligence in medicine	3
Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning	3
Addressing inequal risk exposure in the development of automated vehicles	3
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	3
Improving on and assessing ethical guidelines for digital tracking and tracing systems for pandemics	3
The “digital animal intuition:” the ethics of violence against animals in video games	3
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	3
Knowledge representation and acquisition for ethical AI: challenges and opportunities	3
The immorality of computer games: Defending the endorsement view against Young’s objections	3
Does kindness towards robots lead to virtue? A reply to Sparrow’s asymmetry argument	3
Matching values to technology: a value sensitive design approach to identify values and use cases of an assistive system for people with dementia in institutional care	3
How to do robots with words: a performative view of the moral status of humans and nonhumans	3