OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethics and Information Technology is 10. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Military robots should not look like a humans	98
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	90
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	79
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	56
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	52
What is the ‘personal’ in ‘personal information’?	51
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	43
Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning	43
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	41
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	39
Digitalization of contact tracing: balancing data privacy with public health benefit	37
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	32
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	31
Engineering responsibility	31
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	31
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	27
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	26
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	26
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace	24
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	24
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	23
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	22
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	21
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	21
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’	21

Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	20
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	20
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	20
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice	20
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
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens	18
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act	18
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy	18
How can we know a self-driving car is safe?	16
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	15
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles	15
The video gamer’s dilemmas	14
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?	14
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions	14
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens	14
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	14
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?	13
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review	13
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness	12
Is moral status done with words?	12
ChatGPT is bullshit	12
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?	12
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization	12
Can the predictive processing model of the mind ameliorate the value-alignment problem?	11
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	11
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	11
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	10
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context	10
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be	10
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility	10
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies	10
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	10
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models	10
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?	10
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems	10