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The transfer of tasks with sometimes far-reaching moral implications to autonomous systems raises a number of ethical questions. In addition to fundamental questions about the moral agency of these systems, behavioral issues arise. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Till Feier , Jan Gogoll , Matthias Uhl

As artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics increasingly permeate society, ensuring the ethical behavior of these systems has become paramount. This paper contends that transparency in AI decision-making processes is fundamental to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ahmad Farooq , Kamran Iqbal

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

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

As AI systems become an increasing part of people's everyday lives, it becomes ever more important that they understand people's ethical norms. Motivated by descriptive ethics, a field of study that focuses on people's descriptive judgments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nicholas Lourie , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi

Ethical sensitivity, generally defined as a person's ability to recognize ethical issues and attribute importance to them, is considered to be a crucial competency in the life of professionals and academics and an essential prerequisite to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Linda Battistuzzi , Lucrezia Grassi , Antonio Sgorbissa

If public trust is lost in a new technology early in its life cycle it can take much more time for the benefits of that technology to be realised. Eventually tens-of-millions of people will collectively have the power to determine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jonathan Smith , Siddartha Khastgir

This paper addresses the ethical challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems, emphasizing the imperative for developers to ensure fairness and cultural sensitivity. We investigate the ethical competence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Richard Kimera , Yun-Seon Kim , Heeyoul Choi

The 4th Industrial Revolution is the culmination of the digital age. Nowadays, technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, genetics, and artificial intelligence promise to transform our world and the way we live. Artificial Intelligence…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Nicholas Kluge Corrêa , Nythamar De Oliveira , Diogo Massmann

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most discussed technologies today. There are many innovative applications such as the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, customer experience, new business, education, contagious diseases…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Richard Benjamins , Idoia Salazar

The cyberspace and development of intelligent systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates new challenges to computer professionals, data scientists, regulators and policy makers. For example, self-driving cars raise new technical,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Asher Wilk

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their potential integration into autonomous driving systems necessitates understanding their moral decision-making capabilities. While our previous study examined four prominent LLMs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Muhammad Shahrul Zaim bin Ahmad , Kazuhiro Takemoto

With the growing technological advances in autonomous driving, the transport industry and research community seek to determine the impact that autonomous vehicles (AV) will have on consumers, as well as identify the different factors that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Walter Morales Alvarez , Nikita Smirnov , Elmar Matthes , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become central to advancing automation and decision-making across various sectors, raising significant ethical questions. This study proposes a comprehensive comparative analysis of the most advanced LLMs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Alejandro Tlaie

Ethical decision-making is a critical aspect of human judgment, and the growing use of LLMs in decision-support systems necessitates a rigorous evaluation of their moral reasoning capabilities. However, existing assessments primarily rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ya Wu , Qiang Sheng , Danding Wang , Guang Yang , Yifan Sun , Zhengjia Wang , Yuyan Bu , Juan Cao

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology which is increasingly being utilised in society and the economy worldwide, and its implementation is planned to become more prevalent in coming years. AI is increasingly being embedded in our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Angela Daly , Thilo Hagendorff , Li Hui , Monique Mann , Vidushi Marda , Ben Wagner , Wei Wang , Saskia Witteborn

This paper presents TrolleyMod v1.0, an open-source platform based on the CARLA simulator for the collection of ethical decision-making data for autonomous vehicles. This platform is designed to facilitate experiments aiming to observe and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Vahid Behzadan , James Minton , Arslan Munir

Many sets of ethics principles for responsible AI have been proposed to allay concerns about misuse and abuse of AI/ML systems. The underlying aspects of such sets of principles include privacy, accuracy, fairness, robustness,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Conrad Sanderson , David Douglas , Qinghua Lu

This document, intended for computer science teachers, describes a case study that puts into practice a questioning of ethical, societal and environmental issues when designing or implementing a decision support system. This study is based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Odile Bellenguez , Nadia Brauner , Christine Solnon , Alexis Tsoukias

The transition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a lab-based science to live human contexts brings into sharp focus many historic, socio-cultural biases, inequalities, and moral dilemmas. Many questions that have been raised regarding…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kaska Porayska-Pomsta , Wayne Holmes , Selena Nemorin