Ethics and Information Technology

Papers
(The TQCC of Ethics and Information Technology is 11. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI209
Military robots should not look like a humans130
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic80
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes68
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use60
Gamification and the virtue of perspective56
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering46
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)40
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems38
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’37
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit36
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship36
Navigating the social dilemma of autonomous systems: normative and applied arguments34
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation32
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach31
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-1931
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI30
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society29
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP29
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace28
Engineering responsibility27
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust25
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism25
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’23
Ethical responsibility and computational design: bespoke surgical tools as an instructive case study23
Design culture for Sustainable urban artificial intelligence: Bruno Latour and the search for a different AI urbanism23
Contextual negation by moral opposition: rethinking the ethics of (Rape) simulations23
Calibrating machine behavior: a challenge for AI alignment21
Establishing human responsibility and accountability at early stages of the lifecycle for AI-based defence systems20
The global diplomacy of governing military artificial intelligence20
Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare19
Socially disruptive technologies and epistemic injustice18
Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights18
The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military18
Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens18
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)16
Ethical implications of fairness interventions: what might be hidden behind engineering choices?16
Legitimacy and automated decisions: the moral limits of algocracy16
Use case cards: a use case reporting framework inspired by the European AI Act16
Smart cities as a testbed for experimenting with humans? - Applying psychological ethical guidelines to smart city interventions15
Reasons underdetermination in meaningful human control15
The video gamer’s dilemmas15
Enabling Fairness in Healthcare Through Machine Learning15
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality: three possible solutions15
Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens15
Disruptive technologies, engineered concepts, and normative guidance15
ChatGPT is bullshit14
Big data and the risk of misguided responsibilization14
Urban Digital Twins and metaverses towards city multiplicities: uniting or dividing urban experiences?14
Is moral status done with words?14
A phenomenology and epistemology of large language models: transparency, trust, and trustworthiness14
Algorithmic decision-making employing profiling: will trade secrecy protection render the right to explanation toothless?14
The Ethics of AI in Human Resources13
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers13
Rethinking explainability: toward a postphenomenology of black-box artificial intelligence in medicine13
Negotiating becoming: a Nietzschean critique of large language models13
All ‘Dark patterns’ Are ‘Hostile patterns’: A Hostility Framework for Understanding Problematic Digital Interfaces12
The landscape of data and AI documentation approaches in the European policy context12
Generative AI models should include detection mechanisms as a condition for public release12
Cobots, “co-operation” and the replacement of human skill11
A values-based approach to designing military autonomous systems11
Correction: The repugnant resolution: has Coghlan & Cox resolved the Gamer’s Dilemma?11
Digital temperance: adapting an ancient virtue for a technological age11
Introduction to the topical collection on AI and responsibility11
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