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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Military robots should not look like a humans	105
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	103
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	86
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	61
Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning	53
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	52
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	45
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	43
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	42
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	39
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	36
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	35
Engineering responsibility	32
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	32
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	31
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	28
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	28
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	25
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	24
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’	23
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	22
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism	22
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	22

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