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Although AI has significant potential to transform society, there are serious concerns about its ability to behave and make decisions responsibly. Many ethical regulations, principles, and guidelines for responsible AI have been issued…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Xiwei Xu , Jon Whittle

The use of machine learning (ML) in health care raises numerous ethical concerns, especially as models can amplify existing health inequities. Here, we outline ethical considerations for equitable ML in the advancement of health care.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Irene Y. Chen , Emma Pierson , Sherri Rose , Shalmali Joshi , Kadija Ferryman , Marzyeh Ghassemi

The era of pervasive computing has resulted in countless devices that continuously monitor users and their environment, generating an abundance of user behavioural data. Such data may support improving the quality of service, but may also…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Abhishek Kumar , Tristan Braud , Sasu Tarkoma , Pan Hui

Artificial intelligence (AI) research is routinely criticized for its real and potential impacts on society, and we lack adequate institutional responses to this criticism and to the responsibility that it reflects. AI research often falls…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Michael S. Bernstein , Margaret Levi , David Magnus , Betsy Rajala , Debra Satz , Charla Waeiss

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have shown promising potential in therapeutic scenarios as decision-making instructors or motivational companions. In human-human therapy, experts often communicate the thought process behind the decisions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Carl Bettosi , Kefan Chen , Ryan Shah , Lynne Baillie

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

Ethical oversight of AI research is beset by a number of problems. There are numerous ways to tackle these problems, however, they leave full responsibility for ethical reflection in the hands of review boards and committees. In this paper,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hang Yuan , Claudia Vanea , Federica Lucivero , Nina Hallowell

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

We find ourselves surrounded by a rapidly increasing number of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. Two grand challenges arise from this development: Machine Ethics and Machine Explainability. Machine Ethics, on the one hand, is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Kevin Baum , Holger Hermanns , Timo Speith

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in social robotics presents a unique set of ethical challenges and social impacts. This research is set out to identify ethical considerations that arise in the design and development of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Alva Markelius

Incorporating responsible practices into software engineering (SE) for AI is essential to ensure ethical principles, societal impact, and accountability remain at the forefront of AI system design and deployment. This study investigates the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Lekshmi Murali Rani , Faezeh Mohammadi , Robert Feldt , Richard Berntsson Svensson

Social robots are increasingly being explored as tools to support emotional wellbeing, particularly in non-clinical settings. Drawing on a range of empirical studies and practical deployments, this paper outlines six key insights that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Guy Laban , Micol Spitale , Minja Axelsson , Nida Itrat Abbasi , Hatice Gunes

The term ethics is widely used, explored, and debated in the context of developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) based software systems. In recent years, numerous incidents have raised the profile of ethical issues in AI development and led…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Aastha Pant , Rashina Hoda , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Burak Turhan

Although healthcare is a remarkably sensitive domain of application, and systems that exert direct control over the world can cause harm in a way that humans cannot necessarily correct or oversee, it is still unclear whether and how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Eduard Fosch-Villaronga , Hadassah Drukarch

Increasingly complex and autonomous systems require machine ethics to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks to society arising from the new technology. It is challenging to decide which type of ethical theory to employ and how to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Suzanne Tolmeijer , Markus Kneer , Cristina Sarasua , Markus Christen , Abraham Bernstein

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…

Taking the stance that artificially conscious agents should be given human-like rights, in this paper we attempt to define consciousness, aggregate existing universal human rights, analyze robotic laws with roots in both reality and science…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Markian Hromiak

Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions and technologies are being increasingly adopted in smart systems context, however, such technologies are continuously concerned with ethical uncertainties. Various guidelines, principles, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Arif Ali Khan , Muhammad Azeem Akbar , Mahdi Fahmideh , Peng Liang , Muhammad Waseem , Aakash Ahmad , Mahmood Niazi , Pekka Abrahamsson

Generative AI systems (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc) are expanding into multiple areas of our lives, from art Rombach et al. [2021] to mental health Rob Morris and Kareem Kouddous [2022]; their rapidly growing societal impact opens new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alexis Roger , Esma Aïmeur , Irina Rish