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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Military robots should not look like a humans	150
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	118
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	90
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	64
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	56
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)	52
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	51
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	46
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’	40
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	37
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	37
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	34
Engineering responsibility	32
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	32
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	30
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	28
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	27
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	27
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	26
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	26
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace	25
Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare	24
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’	23
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	23

Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice	22
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism	22
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	21
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens	20
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	20
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	20
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles	17
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)	17
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy	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
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	15
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions	14
ChatGPT is bullshit	14
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness	14
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?	14
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	14
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization	14
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context	13
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?	13
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers	13
Is moral status done with words?	13
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	13
Can the predictive processing model of the mind ameliorate the value-alignment problem?	12
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	12
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models	12
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	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
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?	10
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be	10
A Capability Approach to worker dignity under Algorithmic Management	10
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	10
Digital temperance: adapting an ancient virtue for a technological age	10
Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability	10