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The foundation of successful human collaboration is deeply rooted in the principles of fairness. As robots are increasingly prevalent in various parts of society where they are working alongside groups and teams of humans, their ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Houston Claure

The physical design of a robot suggests expectations of that robot's functionality for human users and collaborators. When those expectations align with the true capabilities of the robot, interaction with the robot is enhanced. However,…

Social robotics development for the practice of care and European prospects to incorporate these AI-based systems in institutional healthcare contexts call for an urgent ethical reflection to (re)configurate our practical life according to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Júlia Pareto Boada , Begoña Román Maestre , Carme Torras

In the last few years, AI continues demonstrating its positive impact on society while sometimes with ethically questionable consequences. Building and maintaining public trust in AI has been identified as the key to successful and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Liming Zhu , Xiwei Xu , Qinghua Lu , Guido Governatori , Jon Whittle

In this paper we present a set of key demarcations, particularly important when discussing ethical and societal issues of current AI research and applications. Properly distinguishing issues and concerns related to Artificial General…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Anders Braarud Hanssen , Stefano Nichele

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical manifestations of those systems on the other hand, in the form…

This paper examines the speculative topic of equitable robots through an exploratory essay format. It focuses specifically on robots by and for LGBTQ+ populations. It aims to provoke thought and conversations in the field about what…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Minja Axelsson

Achieving homophily, or association based on similarity, between a human user and a robot holds a promise of improved perception and task performance. However, no previous studies that address homophily via ethnic similarity with robots…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maxim Makatchev , Reid Simmons , Majd Sakr , Micheline Ziadee

We review practical challenges in building and deploying ethical AI at the scale of contemporary industrial and societal uses. Apart from the purely technical concerns that are the usual focus of academic research, the operational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jiahao Chen , Victor Storchan , Eren Kurshan

This paper introduces the concept of coexistence for embodied artificial agents and argues that it is a prerequisite for long-term, in-the-wild interaction with humans. Contemporary embodied artificial agents excel in static, predefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hannah Kuehn , Joseph La Delfa , Miguel Vasco , Danica Kragic , Iolanda Leite

As AI systems increasingly operate with autonomy and adaptability, the traditional boundaries of moral responsibility in techno-social systems are being challenged. This paper explores the evolving discourse on the delegation of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic , Gianfranco Basti , Tobias Holstein

Policy and guideline proposals for ethical artificial-intelligence research have proliferated in recent years. These are supposed to guide the socially-responsible development of AI for the common good. However, there typically exist…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Travis LaCroix , Aydin Mohseni

Artificial intelligence is currently powering diverse real-world applications. These applications have shown promising performance, but raise complicated ethical issues, i.e. how to embed ethics to make AI applications behave morally. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yujin Jeong , Seongbeom Park , Suhong Moon , Jinkyu Kim

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in human contexts calls for ethical considerations for the design and development of AI-based systems. However, little knowledge currently exists on how to provide useful and tangible tools that could…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ville Vakkuri , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Pekka Abrahamsson

There is a struggle in Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics to gain ground in actionable methods and models to be utilized by practitioners while developing and implementing ethically sound AI systems. AI ethics is a vague concept without a…

As intelligent systems are increasingly making decisions that directly affect society, perhaps the most important upcoming research direction in AI is to rethink the ethical implications of their actions. Means are needed to integrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Virginia Dignum

Cooperation plays a crucial role in both nature and human society, and the conundrum of cooperation attracts the attention from interdisciplinary research. In this study, we investigated the evolution of cooperation in optional prisoner's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-02 Gopal Sharma , Hao Guo , Chen Shen , Jun Tanimoto

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about what we should do with such systems, what the systems…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Vincent C. Müller

Machine ethics has received increasing attention over the past few years because of the need to ensure safe and reliable artificial intelligence (AI). The two dominantly used theories in machine ethics are deontological and utilitarian…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ajay Vishwanath , Einar Duenger Bøhn , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Charl Maree , Christian Omlin

As social robots become increasingly prevalent in day-to-day environments, they will participate in conversations and appropriately manage the information shared with them. However, little is known about how robots might appropriately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Brian Tang , Dakota Sullivan , Bengisu Cagiltay , Varun Chandrasekaran , Kassem Fawaz , Bilge Mutlu