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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI	191
Military robots should not look like a humans	129
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic	101
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes	75
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering	60
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use	55
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)	54
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit	43
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems	39
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’	35
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship	35
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation	34
Navigating the social dilemma of autonomous systems: normative and applied arguments	34
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach	34
Engineering responsibility	31
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society	29
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons	29
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP	29
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace	29
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-19	28
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust	27
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI	25
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism	24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’	23
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism	22

Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare	22
Establishing human responsibility and accountability at early stages of the lifecycle for AI-based defence systems	21
The global diplomacy of governing military artificial intelligence	20
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment	20
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study	20
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice	20
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights	19
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military	18
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy	17
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens	17
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?	16
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act	16
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)	16
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness	15
Reasons underdetermination in meaningful human control	15
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens	15
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions	15
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions	15
The video gamer’s dilemmas	15
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning	15
ChatGPT is bullshit	14
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?	14
Is moral status done with words?	13
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?	13
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization	13
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release	13
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine	12
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers	12
All ‘Dark patterns’ Are ‘Hostile patterns’: A Hostility Framework for Understanding Problematic Digital Interfaces	12
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models	12
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context	12
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources	12
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility	11
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be	11
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems	11
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?	11
Digital temperance: adapting an ancient virtue for a technological age	11
Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability	10
Deconstructing controversies to design a trustworthy AI future	10
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill	10
Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy	10
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?	10
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies	10