OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethics and Information Technology is 8. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	106
The ethics of hacking. Ross W. Bellaby	83
Coupling levels of abstraction in understanding meaningful human control of autonomous weapons: a two-tiered approach	71
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions	60
Human achievement and artificial intelligence	48
Between death and suffering: resolving the gamer’s dilemma	44
Predictive privacy: towards an applied ethics of data analytics	43
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	40
AI for crisis decisions	38
Non-consensual personified sexbots: an intrinsic wrong	38
Ludic resistance: a new solution to the gamer’s paradox	37
Easy-read and large language models: on the ethical dimensions of LLM-based text simplification	34
Authenticity in authorship: the Writer’s Integrity framework for verifying human-generated text	33
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	31
Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making	30
Military artificial intelligence as power: consideration for European Union actorness	29
What is the ‘personal’ in ‘personal information’?	27
Military robots should not look like a humans	27
A Kantian response to the Gamer’s Dilemma	25
The contested role of AI ethics boards in smart societies: a step towards improvement based on board composition by sortition	24
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	23
Addressing inequal risk exposure in the development of automated vehicles	23
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	20
Conceptualizations of user autonomy within the normative evaluation of dark patterns	20
Resisting the Gamer’s Dilemma	20

The impacts of AI futurism: an unfiltered look at AI's true effects on the climate crisis	19
Should we embrace “Big Sister”? Smart speakers as a means to combat intimate partner violence	19
Correction to: the Ethics of AI in Human Resources	18
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	18
Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning	17
Why a treaty on autonomous weapons is necessary and feasible	17
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review	17
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem	17
Digital twins, big data governance, and sustainable tourism	16
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?	16
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness	16
Does kindness towards robots lead to virtue? A reply to Sparrow’s asymmetry argument	15
The ethical use of artificial intelligence in human resource management: a decision-making framework	15
ChatGPT is bullshit	15
Karl Jaspers and artificial neural nets: on the relation of explaining and understanding artificial intelligence in medicine	14
Statistically responsible artificial intelligences	14
Algorithmic legitimacy in clinical decision-making	13
Large language models and their big bullshit potential	12
A portrait of the artist as a young algorithm	12
Is moral status done with words?	11
In defense of (some) online echo chambers	11
How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners	11
Nullius in Explanans: an ethical risk assessment for explainable AI	11
Can the predictive processing model of the mind ameliorate the value-alignment problem?	11
LLMs beyond the lab: the ethics and epistemics of real-world AI research	10
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	10
Digitalization of contact tracing: balancing data privacy with public health benefit	10
(Some) algorithmic bias as institutional bias	10
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization	10
Fiduciary requirements for virtual assistants	9
Dating apps as tools for social engineering	9
Knowledge representation and acquisition for ethical AI: challenges and opportunities	9
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context	9
Framing ethical issues associated with the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app: exceptionalising and narrowing the public ethics debate	8
Conceptualising and regulating all neural data from consumer-directed devices as medical data: more scope for an unnecessary expansion of medical influence?	8
Who is controlling whom? Reframing “meaningful human control” of AI systems in security	8
Trustworthiness of voting advice applications in Europe	8
Ethics framework for predictive clinical AI model updating	8
Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice	8
AI and the need for justification (to the patient)	8
Ethical dilemmas are really important to potential adopters of autonomous vehicles	8
Leading good digital lives	8
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?	8