OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethics and Information Technology is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Blind-sided by privacy? Digital contact tracing, the Apple/Google API and big tech’s newfound role as global health policy makers	114
We need to talk about deception in social robotics!	48
Corona and value change. The role of social media and emotional contagion	46
You’ve got a friend in me: sociable robots for older adults in an age of global pandemics	35
Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance	32
Artificial Intelligence Regulation: a framework for governance	32
Trust in farm data sharing: reflections on the EU code of conduct for agricultural data sharing	31
A sociotechnical perspective for the future of AI: narratives, inequalities, and human control	31
Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment	30
Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management	29
Transparency as design publicity: explaining and justifying inscrutable algorithms	27
Ethical dilemmas are really important to potential adopters of autonomous vehicles	25
The ethical use of artificial intelligence in human resource management: a decision-making framework	25
Sovereignty, privacy, and ethics in blockchain-based identity management systems	23
Ethics of digital contact tracing and COVID-19: who is (not) free to go?	23
Predictive privacy: towards an applied ethics of data analytics	22
Digital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive design to overcome ontological uncertainty	21
Eight grand challenges for value sensitive design from the 2016 Lorentz workshop	21
Is it time for robot rights? Moral status in artificial entities	20
Artificial intelligence and African conceptions of personhood	19
Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context	19
Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: what is the problem?	18
Disability, fairness, and algorithmic bias in AI recruitment	18
Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: lessons learned from the COVID-19 infodemic	18
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem	18

The emergence of “truth machines”?: Artificial intelligence approaches to lie detection	18
From human resources to human rights: Impact assessments for hiring algorithms	18
Applying a principle of explicability to AI research in Africa: should we do it?	16
Value sensitive design as a formative framework	16
The European Commission report on ethics of connected and automated vehicles and the future of ethics of transportation	15
Fairness, explainability and in-between: understanding the impact of different explanation methods on non-expert users’ perceptions of fairness toward an algorithmic system	14
How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners	14
Towards a seamful ethics of Covid-19 contact tracing apps?	14
Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA): a dialogical framework for ethical inquiry of AI and data projects in the Netherlands	14
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	14
Contact tracing apps: an ethical roadmap	13
On the person-based predictive policing of AI	13
Explanatory pragmatism: a context-sensitive framework for explainable medical AI	13
How can we know a self-driving car is safe?	13
A Capability Approach to worker dignity under Algorithmic Management	12
Digital well-being under pandemic conditions: catalysing a theory of online flourishing	11
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	11
Optimization of what? For-profit health apps as manipulative digital environments	11
Disguising Reddit sources and the efficacy of ethical research	11
Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making	11
Friendly AI	10
Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others	10
Beyond privacy vs. health: a justification analysis of the contact-tracing apps debate in the Netherlands	10
Trust in medical artificial intelligence: a discretionary account	10
Critically engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience	10
Ethics of automated vehicles: breaking traffic rules for road safety	10
Characteristics and challenges in the industries towards responsible AI: a systematic literature review	10
The artificial view: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency	9
The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation: why domain adaptation is better than data debiasing	9
Why online personalized pricing is unfair	9
Relative explainability and double standards in medical decision-making	9
What it’s like to be a _____: why it’s (often) unethical to use VR as an empathy nudging tool	9
Digitalization of contact tracing: balancing data privacy with public health benefit	9
Design for values and conceptual engineering	9
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	9
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review	9
Putting explainable AI in context: institutional explanations for medical AI	8
A fictional dualism model of social robots	8
Coupling levels of abstraction in understanding meaningful human control of autonomous weapons: a two-tiered approach	8
What does the gamer do?	8
Positive risk balance: a comprehensive framework to ensure vehicle safety	8
Resisting the Gamer’s Dilemma	8
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?	8
Ethics in the COVID-19 pandemic: myths, false dilemmas, and moral overload	8
Wisdom in the digital age: a conceptual and practical framework for understanding and cultivating cyber-wisdom	8
Reasons for Meaningful Human Control	7
Perceptual breakdown during a global pandemic: introducing phenomenological insights for digital mental health purposes	7
Automated opioid risk scores: a case for machine learning-induced epistemic injustice in healthcare	7
The ethics of inattention: revitalising civil inattention as a privacy-protecting mechanism in public spaces	7
Exploring solutions to the privacy paradox in the context of e-assessment: informed consent revisited	7

Instilling moral value alignment by means of multi-objective reinforcement learning	7
Towards trustworthy blockchains: normative reflections on blockchain-enabled virtual institutions	7
Dual-use implications of AI text generation	6
Extended loneliness. When hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone	6
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	6
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles	6
Prospects for the global governance of autonomous weapons: comparing Chinese, Russian, and US practices	6
The value of responsibility gaps in algorithmic decision-making	6
Introduction to the special issue: value sensitive design: charting the next decade	6
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	5
Corona pan(dem)ic: gateway to global surveillance	5
Statistically responsible artificial intelligences	5
Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy	5
The ethics and epistemology of explanatory AI in medicine and healthcare	5
Special issue on Responsible Robotics: Introduction	5
Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful: the cypherpunk ethics of Julian Assange	5
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	5
Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?	4
Responsible innovation in synthetic biology in response to COVID-19: the role of data positionality	4
The possibility of deliberate norm-adherence in AI	4
AI ethics and the banality of evil	4
Privacy, transparency, and the prisoner’s dilemma	4
The value sensitive design of a preventive health check app	4
May Kantians commit virtual killings that affect no other persons?	4
Who is controlling whom? Reframing “meaningful human control” of AI systems in security	4
Non-consensual personified sexbots: an intrinsic wrong	4
Virtual action	4
Reflection machines: increasing meaningful human control over Decision Support Systems	4
The philosophy of the metaverse	4
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?	4
Automation, unemployment, and insurance	4
Improving ethical attitudes to animals with digital technologies: the case of apes and zoos	4
The seven troubles with norm-compliant robots	3
The “digital animal intuition:” the ethics of violence against animals in video games	3
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	3
Framing ethical issues associated with the UK COVID-19 contact tracing app: exceptionalising and narrowing the public ethics debate	3
Addressing inequal risk exposure in the development of automated vehicles	3
How to do robots with words: a performative view of the moral status of humans and nonhumans	3
Improving on and assessing ethical guidelines for digital tracking and tracing systems for pandemics	3
A willingness to be vulnerable: norm psychology and human–robot relationships	3
Problems with “Friendly AI”	3
Does kindness towards robots lead to virtue? A reply to Sparrow’s asymmetry argument	3
The video gamer’s dilemmas	3
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	3
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	3
Knowledge representation and acquisition for ethical AI: challenges and opportunities	3
Why a treaty on autonomous weapons is necessary and feasible	3