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There appears to be a common agreement that ethical concerns are of high importance when it comes to systems equipped with some sort of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Demands for ethical AI are declared from all directions. As a response, in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Ville Vakkuri , Marianna Jantunen , Erika Halme , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Anh Nguyen-Duc , Tommi Mikkonen , Pekka Abrahamsson

The common consensus is that robots designed to work alongside or serve humans must adhere to the ethical standards of their operational environment. To achieve this, several methods based on established ethical theories have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Rajitha Ramanayake , Vivek Nallur

Recent AI ethics has focused on applying abstract principles downward to practice. This paper moves in the other direction. Ethical insights are generated from the lived experiences of AI-designers working on tangible human problems, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-06 James Brusseau

The debate on AI ethics largely focuses on technical improvements and stronger regulation to prevent accidents or misuse of AI, with solutions relying on holding individual actors accountable for responsible AI development. While useful and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Agnes Schim van der Loeff , Iggy Bassi , Sachin Kapila , Jevgenij Gamper

Public-sector bureaucracies seek to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), but face important concerns about accountability and transparency when using AI systems. In particular, perception or actuality of AI agency might create…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Chris Schmitz , Joanna Bryson

This paper stresses the importance of biases in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in two regards. First, in order to foster efficient algorithmic decision-making in complex, unstable, and uncertain real-world environments, we argue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Sarah Fabi , Thilo Hagendorff

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence into various domains, including design and creative processes, raises significant ethical questions. While AI ethics is often examined from the perspective of technology developers, less…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Geert Hofman

Within the current AI ethics discourse, there is a gap in empirical research on understanding how AI practitioners understand ethics and socially organize to operationalize ethical concerns, particularly in the context of AI start-ups. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Mona Sloane , Janina Zakrzewski

In the past decade, the deployment of deep learning (Artificial Intelligence (AI)) methods has become pervasive across a spectrum of real-world applications, often in safety-critical contexts. This comprehensive research article rigorously…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Sidra Nasir , Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Samita Bai

There is an overwhelming abundance of works in AI Ethics. This growth is chaotic because of how sudden it is, its volume, and its multidisciplinary nature. This makes difficult to keep track of debates, and to systematically characterize…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Emanuele Ratti

This article introduces the special issue "Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives". In response to recent controversies about the harms of digital technology, discourses and practices of "tech ethics" have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Ben Green

The ethical implications and social impacts of artificial intelligence have become topics of compelling interest to industry, researchers in academia, and the public. However, current analyses of AI in a global context are biased toward…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Alexa Hagerty , Igor Rubinov

Artificial Moral Agents (AMA's) is a field in computer science with the purpose of creating autonomous machines that can make moral decisions akin to how humans do. Researchers have proposed theoretical means of creating such machines,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-03 George Rautenbach , C. Maria Keet

The article analyzes the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on contemporary society and the importance of adopting an ethical approach to its development and implementation within organizations. It examines the critical perspective of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Ernesto Giralt Hernández

While the demand for ethical artificial intelligence (AI) systems increases, the number of unethical uses of AI accelerates, even though there is no shortage of ethical guidelines. We argue that a possible underlying cause for this is that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Inga Strümke , Marija Slavkovik , Vince I. Madai

This article appears as chapter 21 of Prince (2023, Understanding Deep Learning); a complete draft of the textbook is available here: http://udlbook.com. This chapter considers potential harms arising from the design and use of AI systems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Travis LaCroix , Simon J. D. Prince

Artificial intelligence (AI), although not able to currently capture the many complexities of humans, are slowly adapting to have certain capabilities of humans, many of which can revolutionize our world. AI systems, such as ChatGPT and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jay Nemec

A plethora of toolkits, checklists, and workshops have been developed to bridge the well-documented gap between AI ethics principles and practice. Yet little is known about effects of such interventions on practitioners. We conducted an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sonja Rattay , Ville Vakkuri , Marco Rozendaal , Irina Shklovski

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with an interest in AI ethics need more integrative approaches for studying and intervening in AI systems across many contexts and scales of activity. This paper presents AI value chains as an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Blair Attard-Frost , David Gray Widder

Various recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) system failures, some of which have made the global headlines, have highlighted issues in these systems. These failures have resulted in calls for more ethical AI systems that better take into…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ville Vakkuri , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Pekka Abrahamsson