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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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial Intelligence Regulation: a framework for governance	61
We need to talk about deception in social robotics!	59
A sociotechnical perspective for the future of AI: narratives, inequalities, and human control	53
The ethical use of artificial intelligence in human resource management: a decision-making framework	46
Transparency as design publicity: explaining and justifying inscrutable algorithms	37
Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment	33
Predictive privacy: towards an applied ethics of data analytics	33
Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management	32
Disability, fairness, and algorithmic bias in AI recruitment	30
Ethical dilemmas are really important to potential adopters of autonomous vehicles	29
Sovereignty, privacy, and ethics in blockchain-based identity management systems	29
From human resources to human rights: Impact assessments for hiring algorithms	29
Fairness, explainability and in-between: understanding the impact of different explanation methods on non-expert users’ perceptions of fairness toward an algorithmic system	28
Is it time for robot rights? Moral status in artificial entities	27
AI recruitment algorithms and the dehumanization problem	25
Artificial intelligence and responsibility gaps: what is the problem?	25
Characteristics and challenges in the industries towards responsible AI: a systematic literature review	25
Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context	24
Eight grand challenges for value sensitive design from the 2016 Lorentz workshop	23
The emergence of “truth machines”?: Artificial intelligence approaches to lie detection	20
The European Commission report on ethics of connected and automated vehicles and the future of ethics of transportation	20
Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA): a dialogical framework for ethical inquiry of AI and data projects in the Netherlands	19
How to feel about emotionalized artificial intelligence? When robot pets, holograms, and chatbots become affective partners	19
Disguising Reddit sources and the efficacy of ethical research	19
Value sensitive design as a formative framework	19

Relative explainability and double standards in medical decision-making	17
Explanatory pragmatism: a context-sensitive framework for explainable medical AI	17
Digital well-being under pandemic conditions: catalysing a theory of online flourishing	16
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	16
How can we know a self-driving car is safe?	16
Weapons of moral construction? On the value of fairness in algorithmic decision-making	16
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	15
Instilling moral value alignment by means of multi-objective reinforcement learning	15
A Capability Approach to worker dignity under Algorithmic Management	14
Design for values and conceptual engineering	14
Why online personalized pricing is unfair	14
The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation: why domain adaptation is better than data debiasing	14
Resisting the Gamer’s Dilemma	14
Trust in medical artificial intelligence: a discretionary account	13
Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others	13
Automated opioid risk scores: a case for machine learning-induced epistemic injustice in healthcare	13
Critically engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience	13
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	12
What it’s like to be a _____: why it’s (often) unethical to use VR as an empathy nudging tool	12
Optimization of what? For-profit health apps as manipulative digital environments	12
Extended loneliness. When hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone	12
Putting explainable AI in context: institutional explanations for medical AI	12
Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review	12
Ethics of automated vehicles: breaking traffic rules for road safety	12
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	11
Dual-use implications of AI text generation	11
Reasons for Meaningful Human Control	10
Wisdom in the digital age: a conceptual and practical framework for understanding and cultivating cyber-wisdom	10
ChatGPT is bullshit	10
Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy	10
Digitalization of contact tracing: balancing data privacy with public health benefit	10
Towards trustworthy blockchains: normative reflections on blockchain-enabled virtual institutions	10
A fictional dualism model of social robots	10
Beyond privacy vs. health: a justification analysis of the contact-tracing apps debate in the Netherlands	10
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?	9
Ethics in the COVID-19 pandemic: myths, false dilemmas, and moral overload	9
Positive risk balance: a comprehensive framework to ensure vehicle safety	9
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	8
How to teach responsible AI in Higher Education: challenges and opportunities	8
The ethics of inattention: revitalising civil inattention as a privacy-protecting mechanism in public spaces	8
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	8
Coupling levels of abstraction in understanding meaningful human control of autonomous weapons: a two-tiered approach	8
The video gamer’s dilemmas	7
Reflection machines: increasing meaningful human control over Decision Support Systems	7
The value sensitive design of a preventive health check app	6
Introduction to the special issue: value sensitive design: charting the next decade	6
Psychological consequences of legal responsibility misattribution associated with automated vehicles	6
Statistically responsible artificial intelligences	6
The value of responsibility gaps in algorithmic decision-making	6
Prospects for the global governance of autonomous weapons: comparing Chinese, Russian, and US practices	6

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	5
Corona pan(dem)ic: gateway to global surveillance	5
The ethics and epistemology of explanatory AI in medicine and healthcare	5
Model of a military autonomous device following International Humanitarian Law	5
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	5
How to do robots with words: a performative view of the moral status of humans and nonhumans	5
Automation, unemployment, and insurance	5
Improving ethical attitudes to animals with digital technologies: the case of apes and zoos	5
Conceptualizations of user autonomy within the normative evaluation of dark patterns	5
The philosophy of the metaverse	5
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	5
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	5
AI ethics and the banality of evil	5
Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful: the cypherpunk ethics of Julian Assange	5
Digital twins, big data governance, and sustainable tourism	5
Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics	5
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	5
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?	5
Karl Jaspers and artificial neural nets: on the relation of explaining and understanding artificial intelligence in medicine	5
Knowledge representation and acquisition for ethical AI: challenges and opportunities	5
Virtual action	5
Value Sensitive Design for autonomous weapon systems – a primer	4
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	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
Why a treaty on autonomous weapons is necessary and feasible	4
Dirty data labeled dirt cheap: epistemic injustice in machine learning systems	4
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism	4
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies	4
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	4
Non-consensual personified sexbots: an intrinsic wrong	4
A systematic review of almost three decades of value sensitive design (VSD): what happened to the technical investigations?	4
Has Montefiore and Formosa resisted the Gamer’s Dilemma?	4
Responsible innovation in synthetic biology in response to COVID-19: the role of data positionality	4
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	4
Between death and suffering: resolving the gamer’s dilemma	4
Does kindness towards robots lead to virtue? A reply to Sparrow’s asymmetry argument	4
Scoping the ethical principles of cybersecurity fear appeals	3
Explanation and Agency: exploring the normative-epistemic landscape of the “Right to Explanation”	3
Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice	3
Non-empirical problems in fair machine learning	3
The seven troubles with norm-compliant robots	3
A willingness to be vulnerable: norm psychology and human–robot relationships	3
Cognitive warfare: an ethical analysis	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
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	3
Specifying a principle of cryptographic justice as a response to the problem of going dark	3
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy	3
Ethics framework for predictive clinical AI model updating	3
Problems with “Friendly AI”	3
Improving on and assessing ethical guidelines for digital tracking and tracing systems for pandemics	3