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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

Ethics in AI has become a debated topic of public and expert discourse in recent years. But what do people who build AI - AI practitioners - have to say about their understanding of AI ethics and the challenges associated with incorporating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Aastha Pant , Rashina Hoda , Simone V. Spiegler , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Burak Turhan

Software systems play an ever more important role in our lives and software engineers and their companies find themselves in a position where they are held responsible for ethical issues that may arise. In this paper, we try to disentangle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jan Gogoll , Niina Zuber , Severin Kacianka , Timo Greger , Alexander Pretschner , Julian Nida-Rümelin

AI agents -- systems that combine foundation models with reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use -- are rapidly becoming a practical interface between natural-language intent and real-world computation. This survey synthesizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bin Xu

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

The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full piece of software purely out of natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ruanqianqian Huang , Avery Reyna , Sorin Lerner , Haijun Xia , Brian Hempel

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 recent rapid advancements in artificial intelligence research and deployment have sparked more discussion about the potential ramifications of socially- and emotionally-intelligent AI. The question is not if research can produce such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Desmond C. Ong

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being used to predict and assess behaviour in multiple domains, such as criminal justice and consumer finance, which directly affect human well-being. However, if AI is to improve people's…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Andrea Aler Tubella , Andreas Theodorou , Virginia Dignum , Frank Dignum

Incorporating ethics into the requirement elicitation process is essential for creating ethically aligned systems. Although eliciting manual ethics requirements is effective, it requires diverse input from multiple stakeholders, which can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Asma Yamani , Malak Baslyman , Moataz Ahmed

The more AI agents are deployed in scenarios with possibly unexpected situations, the more they need to be flexible, adaptive, and creative in achieving the goal we have given them. Thus, a certain level of freedom to choose the best path…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Francesca Rossi , Nicholas Mattei

AI coding assistants and autonomous agents are becoming integral to software development workflows, reshaping how code is produced, reviewed, and maintained. While recent research has focused mainly on the capabilities and impacts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Christoph Treude

Recent advances in AI applications have raised growing concerns about the need for ethical guidelines and regulations to mitigate the risks posed by these technologies. In this paper, we present a mixed-methods survey study - combining…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wilder Baldwin , Sepideh Ghanavati , Manuel Woersdoerfer

Introduction. AI Ethics is framed distinctly across actors and stakeholder groups. We report results from a case study of OpenAI analysing ethical AI discourse. Method. Research addressed: How has OpenAI's public discourse leveraged…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Melissa Wilfley , Mengting Ai , Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

This paper deals with the importance of developing codes of conduct for practitioners--be it journalists, doctors, attorneys, or other professions--that are encountering ethical issues when using computation, but do not have access to any…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Samuel Danzon-Chambaud , Marguerite Foissac

This 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 technocritical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ernesto Giralt Hernández

The organizational use of artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly spread across various sectors. Alongside the awareness of the benefits brought by AI, there is a growing consensus on the necessity of tackling the risks and potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Matti Mäntymäki , Matti Minkkinen , Teemu Birkstedt , Mika Viljanen

In the age of algorithms, I focus on the question of how to ensure algorithms that will take over many of our familiar archival and library tasks, will behave according to human ethical norms that have evolved over many years. I start by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Martijn van Otterlo

Dominant approaches, e.g. the EU's "Trustworthy AI framework", treat trust as a property that can be designed for, evaluated, and governed according to normative and technical criteria. They do not address how trust is subjectively…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Lameck Mbangula Amugongo , Tutaleni Asino , Nicola J Bidwell

Background: The development of AI-enabled software heavily depends on AI model documentation, such as model cards, due to different domain expertise between software engineers and model developers. From an ethical standpoint, AI model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Haoyu Gao , Mansooreh Zahedi , Christoph Treude , Sarita Rosenstock , Marc Cheong