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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	306
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	91
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)	85
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
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	59
Gamification and the virtue of perspective	48
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’	47
Closing the responsibility gap: allocating responsibility according to prerequisite control and expectations for personal benefits	47
Navigating the social dilemma of autonomous systems: normative and applied arguments	41
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	39
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	37
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	35
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	34
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	31
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	30
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	30
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	29
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	28
Engineering responsibility	28
Contextual negation by moral opposition: rethinking the ethics of (Rape) simulations	27
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	27
Virtual reality and agential moral enhancement	27
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace	25
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	25

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

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