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Dataset transparency is a key enabler of responsible AI, but insights into multimodal dataset attributes that impact trustworthy and ethical aspects of AI applications remain scarce and are difficult to compare across datasets. To address…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Wiebke Hutiri , Mircea Cimpoi , Morgan Scheuerman , Victoria Matthews , Alice Xiang

As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, questions about machine consciousness and its ethical implications have moved from fringe speculation to mainstream academic debate. Current ethical frameworks in this domain often implicitly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhou Ziheng , Haiqiang Dai , Bin Ling , Ying Nian Wu , Demetri Terzopoulos

The pervasive integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across domains such as healthcare, governance, finance, and education has intensified scrutiny of its ethical implications, including algorithmic bias, privacy risks, accountability,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Anshu M Mittal , P D Parthasarathy , Swaroop Joshi

This white paper underscores the critical importance of responsibly deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in military contexts, emphasizing a commitment to ethical and legal standards. The evolving role of AI in the military goes beyond…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mathias Anneken , Nadia Burkart , Fabian Jeschke , Achim Kuwertz-Wolf , Almuth Mueller , Arne Schumann , Michael Teutsch

In 2019, the paper entitled "Model Cards for Model Reporting" introduced a new tool for documenting model performance and encouraged the practice of transparent reporting for a defined list of categories. One of the categories detailed in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-26 DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo , Jake Gord

Open-source software (OSS) is foundational to modern digital infrastructure, yet this context for group work continues to struggle to ensure sufficient contributions in many critical cases. This literature review explores how artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 S M Rakib UI Karim , Wenyi Lu , Sean Goggins

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

Foundation models have had a transformative impact on AI. A combination of large investments in research and development, growing sources of digital data for training, and architectures that scale with data and compute has led to models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Daniel McDuff , Tim Korjakow , Kevin Klyman , Danish Contractor

AI is transforming the existing technology landscape at a rapid phase enabling data-informed decision making and autonomous decision making. Unlike any other technology, because of the decision-making ability of AI, ethics and governance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mahendra Samarawickrama

As AI coding agents become embedded in software development workflows, developers are beginning to operationalize ethical principles by encoding behavioral rules into repository-level context files for AI agents, such as AGENTS.md files.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Christoph Treude , Sebastian Baltes , Marc Cheong

Advances in machine learning are closely tied to the creation of datasets. While data documentation is widely recognized as essential to the reliability, reproducibility, and transparency of ML, we lack a systematic empirical understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xinyu Yang , Weixin Liang , James Zou

In recent years, research involving human participants has been critical to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), particularly in the areas of conversational, human-compatible, and cooperative AI. For example,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kevin R. McKee

Public participation is indispensable for an insightful understanding of the ethics issues raised by AI technologies. Twitter is selected in this paper to serve as an online public sphere for exploring discourse on AI ethics, facilitating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Mengyi Wei , Puzhen Zhang , Chuan Chen , Dongsheng Chen , Chenyu Zuo , Liqiu Meng

Data is central to the development and evaluation of machine learning (ML) models. However, the use of problematic or inappropriate datasets can result in harms when the resulting models are deployed. To encourage responsible AI practice…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Amy K. Heger , Liz B. Marquis , Mihaela Vorvoreanu , Hanna Wallach , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Legislation and public sentiment throughout the world have promoted fairness metrics, explainability, and interpretability as prescriptions for the responsible development of ethical artificial intelligence systems. Despite the importance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Erick Galinkin

In this article we focus on the structural aspects of the development of ethical software, and argue that ethical considerations need to be embedded into the (agile) software development process. In fact, we claim that agile processes of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Niina Zuber , Severin Kacianka , Jan Gogoll , Alexander Pretschner , Julian Nida-Rümelin

Activists, journalists, and scholars have long raised critical questions about the relationship between diversity, representation, and structural exclusions in data-intensive tools and services. We build on work mapping the emergent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Nicole Chi , Emma Lurie , Deirdre K. Mulligan

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent, protecting personal privacy is a critical ethical issue that must be addressed. This article explores the need for ethical AI systems that safeguard individual privacy while complying…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Petar Radanliev , Omar Santos

The importance and pervasiveness of emotions in our lives makes affective computing a tremendously important and vibrant line of work. Systems for automatic emotion recognition (AER) and sentiment analysis can be facilitators of enormous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Saif M. Mohammad

AI evaluations have become critical tools for assessing large language model capabilities and safety. This paper presents practical insights from eight months of maintaining $inspect\_evals$, an open-source repository of 70+…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Alexandra Abbas , Celia Waggoner , Justin Olive