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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Military robots should not look like a humans	133
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	110
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	87
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	62
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	52
Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning	47
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	46
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	41
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	40
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	37
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	33
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	32
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	32
Engineering responsibility	31
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	29
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	26
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	25
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace	25
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	25
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	24
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	24
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	23
Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare	23
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism	22
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	21

Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’	21
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice	20
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	20
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	20
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)	19
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens	19
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act	17
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles	16
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy	16
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens	15
The video gamer’s dilemmas	15
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?	15
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	14
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness	14
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	14
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization	14
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions	14
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?	14
ChatGPT is bullshit	14
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?	13
Is moral status done with words?	13
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models	13
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	12
Can the predictive processing model of the mind ameliorate the value-alignment problem?	12
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers	12
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context	12
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	12
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies	11
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?	11
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility	11
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems	11
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	11
Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability	10
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	10
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be	10