Ethics and Information Technology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ethics and Information Technology is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Military robots should not look like a humans150
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering118
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI90
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic64
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use56
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)52
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes51
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship46
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’40
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation37
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach37
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems34
Engineering responsibility32
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit32
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons30
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society28
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP27
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI27
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism26
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust26
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace25
Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare24
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-1924
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’23
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study23
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice22
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism22
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military21
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights20
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens20
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment20
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act17
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles17
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)17
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy17
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens16
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning15
The video gamer’s dilemmas15
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?15
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions14
ChatGPT is bullshit14
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness14
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?14
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions14
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization14
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context13
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?13
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers13
Is moral status done with words?13
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine13
Can the predictive processing model of the mind ameliorate the value-alignment problem?12
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources12
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models12
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release12
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies11
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?11
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility11
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems11
Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability10
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?10
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be10
A Capability Approach to worker dignity under Algorithmic Management10
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill10
Digital temperance: adapting an ancient virtue for a technological age10
Explainable AI in the military domain9
Ethics of sleep tracking: techno-ethical particularities of consumer-led sleep-tracking with a focus on medicalization, vulnerability, and relationality9
Ethics of generative AI and manipulation: a design-oriented research agenda9
Cognitive warfare: an ethical analysis9
Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy9
Explanation and Agency: exploring the normative-epistemic landscape of the “Right to Explanation”9
Deconstructing controversies to design a trustworthy AI future9
Correction to: Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making8
Tailoring responsible research and innovation to the translational context: the case of AI-supported exergaming8
Responsible scaling of artificial intelligence in healthcare: standardization meets customization8
Framing the Gamer’s Dilemma8
Responsible reliance concerning development and use of AI in the military domain8
Design for values and conceptual engineering8
Automated opioid risk scores: a case for machine learning-induced epistemic injustice in healthcare8
Digital twins for children with rare diseases: an exploration of the legal and ethical issues8
Transparency for AI systems: a value-based approach7
Can we solve the Gamer’s Dilemma by resisting it?7
Correction to: the Ethics of AI in Human Resources7
Towards a comprehensive framework for ethical and responsible standardisation7
A systematic review of almost three decades of value sensitive design (VSD): what happened to the technical investigations?7
Dirty data labeled dirt cheap: epistemic injustice in machine learning systems7
Between death and suffering: resolving the gamer’s dilemma7
Why a treaty on autonomous weapons is necessary and feasible7
Role of emotions in responsible military AI7
Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: what is the problem?7
Ludic resistance: a new solution to the gamer’s paradox7
Conceptualizations of user autonomy within the normative evaluation of dark patterns7
What is conceptual disruption?6
Explanatory pragmatism: a context-sensitive framework for explainable medical AI6
Easy-read and large language models: on the ethical dimensions of LLM-based text simplification6
Ethics framework for predictive clinical AI model updating6
AI and the need for justification (to the patient)6
Mind the gap: bridging the divide between computer scientists and ethicists in shaping moral machines6
Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice6
Bringing values to standardisation: from policy concepts to a value-based framework for education about standardisation6
Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI6
Embracing grief in the age of deathbots: a temporary tool, not a permanent solution5
Empathy training through virtual reality: moral enhancement with the freedom to fall?5
Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context5
Dual-use implications of AI text generation5
Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback5
Artificial intelligence and humanitarian obligations5
Intended, afforded, and experienced serendipity: overcoming the paradox of artificial serendipity5
A moving target in AI-assisted decision-making: dataset shift, model updating, and the problem of update opacity5
Robots, institutional roles and joint action: some key ethical issues5
The value of responsibility gaps in algorithmic decision-making5
Trust in medical artificial intelligence: a discretionary account5
Violent video games: content, attitudes, and norms5
Human digital twins unlocking Society 5.0? Approaches, emerging risks and disruptions5
Engineers on responsibility: feminist approaches to who’s responsible for ethical AI5
Moral autonomy of patients and legal barriers to a possible duty of health related data sharing5
Socializing the political: rethinking filter bubbles and social media with Hannah Arendt5
Getting it right: the limits of fine-tuning large language models5
Military artificial intelligence as power: consideration for European Union actorness4
Fiduciary requirements for virtual assistants4
Technology and pronouns: disrupting the ‘Natural Attitude about Gender’4
Correction: Framing the Gamer’s Dilemma4
Melting contestation: insurance fairness and machine learning4
Should we embrace “Big Sister”? Smart speakers as a means to combat intimate partner violence4
Human achievement and artificial intelligence4
The cognitive and moral harms of platform decay4
Nullius in Explanans: an ethical risk assessment for explainable AI4
Trustworthiness of voting advice applications in Europe4
Cut the crap: a critical response to “ChatGPT is bullshit”4
Ethics of AI in Africa: Interrogating the role of Ubuntu and AI governance initiatives4
The contested role of AI ethics boards in smart societies: a step towards improvement based on board composition by sortition4
The perfect technological storm: artificial intelligence and moral complacency4
LLMs beyond the lab: the ethics and epistemics of real-world AI research4
Algorithmic legitimacy in clinical decision-making4
Dating apps as tools for social engineering4
The ethics of online steering4
The ethics of hacking. Ross W. Bellaby4
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