Ethics and Information Technology

Papers
(The TQCC of Ethics and Information Technology is 12. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI317
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic95
Gamification and the virtue of perspective89
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering66
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use62
Military robots should not look like a humans61
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems51
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)51
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’49
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship47
Navigating the social dilemma of autonomous systems: normative and applied arguments39
Closing the responsibility gap: allocating responsibility according to prerequisite control and expectations for personal benefits38
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit37
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation35
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach33
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society32
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust31
Engineering responsibility29
Virtual reality and agential moral enhancement29
Contextual negation by moral opposition: rethinking the ethics of (Rape) simulations29
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace28
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-1928
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons27
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism27
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP26
The global diplomacy of governing military artificial intelligence26
Correction to: Ensuring the exercise of human agency in AI-based military systems: concerns across the lifecycle24
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights24
Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’23
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment22
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice21
Establishing human responsibility and accountability at early stages of the lifecycle for AI-based defence systems20
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)19
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism19
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy19
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military19
Should we speak of machine agency? A case against conceptual extension18
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act18
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens18
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens18
When work becomes a game: the moral costs of gamified labor18
Reasons underdetermination in meaningful human control18
Algorithmic representation in virtual realities: ethical challenges and regulatory opportunities18
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions17
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning17
Disruptive technologies, engineered concepts, and normative guidance17
ChatGPT is bullshit16
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions16
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness16
Wide reflective equilibrium in LLM alignment: bridging moral epistemology and AI safety16
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models16
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?16
Is moral status done with words?15
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers15
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization14
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context13
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources13
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility13
All ‘Dark patterns’ Are ‘Hostile patterns’: A Hostility Framework for Understanding Problematic Digital Interfaces13
Digital temperance: adapting an ancient virtue for a technological age13
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release13
Public health measures and the rise of incidental surveillance: Considerations about private informational power and accountability13
Is VR a tool of liberation? addressing the ethics of VR through sociohistorical contextualization12
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill12
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?12
What responsibility gaps are and what they should be12
Enforcing ethical goals over reinforcement-learning policies12
Explainable AI in the military domain12
Vicarious liability: a solution to a problem of AI responsibility?12
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems12
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