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The introduction of artificial intelligence into activities traditionally carried out by human beings produces brutal changes. This is not without consequences for human values. This paper is about designing and implementing models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Fabrice Muhlenbach

It is very important to adhere strictly to ethical and social influences when delivering most of our life to artificial intelligence systems. With industry 4.0, the internet of things, data analysis and automation have begun to be of great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Tuncay Yigit , Utku Kose , Nilgun Sengoz

The question of whether artificial entities deserve moral consideration has become one of the defining ethical challenges of AI research. Existing frameworks for moral patiency rely on verified ontological properties, such as sentience,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Faezeh B. Pasandi , Hannah B. Pasandi

Trust in robots is widely believed to be imperative for the adoption of robots into people's daily lives. It is, therefore, understandable that the literature of the last few decades focuses on measuring how much people trust robots -- and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Patrick Holthaus , Alessandra Rossi

Using LLMs in healthcare, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Social Computing requires the examination of ethical and social norms to ensure safe incorporation into human life. We conducted a mixed-method study, including an online…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Omid Veisi , Sasan Bahrami , Roman Englert , Claudia Müller

In human-robot teams, humans often start with an inaccurate model of the robot capabilities. As they interact with the robot, they infer the robot's capabilities and partially adapt to the robot, i.e., they might change their actions based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Stefanos Nikolaidis , Swaprava Nath , Ariel D. Procaccia , Siddhartha Srinivasa

As large language models (LLMs) become more deeply integrated into various sectors, understanding how they make moral judgments has become crucial, particularly in the realm of autonomous driving. This study utilized the Moral Machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kazuhiro Takemoto

Making conjectures about future consequences of a technology is an exercise in trying to reduce various forms of uncertainty. Both to produce and reason about these conjectures requires understanding their potential limitations. In other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Nicholas Diakopoulos , Jessica Hullman

Nowadays, robots are expected to interact more physically, cognitively, and socially with people. They should adapt to unpredictable contexts alongside individuals with various behaviours. For this reason, personalisation is a valuable…

The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in household environments, especially in the form of proactive autonomous agents, brings about possibilities of comfort and attention as well as it comes with intra or extramural ethical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Joydeep Chandra , Satyam Kumar Navneet

The presence of autonomous systems is growing at a fast pace and it is impacting many aspects of our lives. Designed to learn and act independently, these systems operate and perform decision-making without human intervention. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mashal Afzal Memon , Gianluca Filippone , Gian Luca Scoccia , Marco Autili , Paola Inverardi

This paper presents the development of a novel ethical reasoning framework for robots. "Robots Can Feel" is the first system for robots that utilizes a combination of logic and human-like emotion simulation to make decisions in morally…

People are increasingly subject to algorithmic decisions, and it is generally agreed that end-users should be provided an explanation or rationale for these decisions. There are different purposes that explanations can have, such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Emily Sullivan , Philippe Verreault-Julien

We present a position paper advocating the notion that Stoic philosophy and ethics can inform the development of ethical A.I. systems. This is in sharp contrast to most work on building ethical A.I., which has focused on Utilitarian or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Gabriel Murray

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics is a nascent yet critical research field. Recent developments in generative AI and foundational models necessitate a renewed look at the problem of AI Ethics. In this study, we perform a bibliometric…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Di Kevin Gao , Andrew Haverly , Sudip Mittal , Jingdao Chen

Ethics is an ancient matter for human kind, from the origin of civilizations ethics have been related with the most relevant human concerns and determined cultures. Ethics was initially related to religion, politics and philosophy to then…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-12 David Pastor-Escuredo

Artificial intelligence surrogates are systems designed to infer preferences when individuals lose decision-making capacity. Fairness in such systems is a domain that has been insufficiently explored. Traditional algorithmic fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

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

The ethics of human-robot interaction (HRI) have been discussed extensively based on three traditional frameworks: deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. We conducted a mixed within/between experiment to investigate Sparrow's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Minyi Wang , Christoph Bartneck , Michael-John Turp , David Kaber

Robot accidents are inevitable. Although rare, they have been happening since assembly-line robots were first introduced in the 1960s. But a new generation of social robots are now becoming commonplace. Often with sophisticated embedded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Alan F. T. Winfield , Katie Winkle , Helena Webb , Ulrik Lyngs , Marina Jirotka , Carl Macrae