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81Issues, concepts and methods relating to the identification of the ethics of emerging ICTsCommunications of the IIMA 10 (1): 33-43. 2010.Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, their ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons policy makers are interested in finding out what these issues are and how they can be addressed. The best way of creating ICT policy that is sensitive …Read more
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15Identifying the ethics of emerging information and communication technologies: An essay on issues, concepts and methodInternational Journal of Technoethics 1 (4): 20-38. 2010.Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, and people’s ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons, policy makers are interested in finding out what these issues are and how they can be addressed. The best way of creating ICT policy that is se…Read more
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3Ethics and Privacy in AI and Big Data: Implementing Responsible Research and InnovationIEEE Security and Privacy 16 (3): 26-33. 2018.
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4Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data GovernanceNeuroethics 17 (2): 1-25. 2024.Advances in neuroscience and other disciplines are producing large-scale brain data consisting of datasets from multiple organisms, disciplines, and jurisdictions in different formats. However, due to the lack of an international data governance framework brain data is currently being produced under various contextual ethical and legal principles which may influence key stakeholders involved in the generation, collection, processing and sharing of brain data thereby raising ethical and legal cha…Read more
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11Despite its successes, to date Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still characterized by a number of shortcomings with regards to different application domains and goals. These limitations are arguably both conceptual (e.g., related to the underlying theoretical models, such as symbolic vs.connectionist), and operational (e.g., related to robustness and ability to generalize). Biologically inspired AI, and more specifically brain-inspired AI, promises to provide further biological aspects beyond th…Read more
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19Assessing responsible innovation trainingJournal of Responsible Technology 16 (C): 100063. 2023.
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46Responsibility of/in digital transformationJournal of Responsible Technology 16 (C): 100068. 2023.
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73How to Shape a Better Future? Epistemic Difficulties for Ethical Assessment and Anticipatory Governance of Emerging TechnologiesEthical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (5): 1027-1047. 2015.Empirical research into the ethics of emerging technologies, often involving foresight studies, technology assessment or application of the precautionary principle, raises significant epistemological challenges by failing to explain the relative epistemic status of contentious normative claims about future states. This weakness means that it is unclear why the conclusions reached by these approaches should be considered valid, for example in anticipatory ethical assessment or governance of emerg…Read more
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88Intersectional observations of the Human Brain Project’s approach to sex and genderJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 17 (2): 128-144. 2019.Purpose This paper aims to critically assess approaches to sex and gender in the Human Brain Project as a large information and communication technology project case study using intersectionality. Design/methodology/approach The strategy of the HBP is contextualised within the wider context of the representation of women in ICT, and critically reflected upon from an intersectional standpoint. Findings The policy underpinning the approach deployed by the HBP in response to these issues parallels …Read more
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52Ethical and Social Aspects of NeuroroboticsScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (5): 2533-2546. 2020.The interdisciplinary field of neurorobotics looks to neuroscience to overcome the limitations of modern robotics technology, to robotics to advance our understanding of the neural system’s inner workings, and to information technology to develop tools that support those complementary endeavours. The development of these technologies is still at an early stage, which makes them an ideal candidate for proactive and anticipatory ethical reflection. This article explains the current state of neuror…Read more
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19Managing Ethics in the HBP: A Reflective and Dialogical ApproachAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (1): 20-24. 2016.
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27Ethics in corporate research and development: can responsible research and innovation approaches aid sustainability?Journal of Cleaner Production 239. 2019.An increase in the number of companies that publish corporate social responsibility (CSR) statements, and a rise in their ‘sustainability’ research, reflects a growing acceptance that broad ethical considerations are key for any type of company. However, little is known about how companies consider moral objectives for their research and development (R&D) activities, or the basis upon which these activities are chosen. This research involves qualitative investigation into Responsible Research an…Read more
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18Critical Theory as an Approach to the Ethics of Information SecurityScience and Engineering Ethics 20 (3): 675-699. 2014.Information security can be of high moral value. It can equally be used for immoral purposes and have undesirable consequences. In this paper we suggest that critical theory can facilitate a better understanding of possible ethical issues and can provide support when finding ways of addressing them. The paper argues that critical theory has intrinsic links to ethics and that it is possible to identify concepts frequently used in critical theory to pinpoint ethical concerns. Using the example of …Read more
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38Research and Practice of AI Ethics: A Case Study Approach Juxtaposing Academic Discourse with Organisational RealityScience and Engineering Ethics 27 (2): 1-29. 2021.This study investigates the ethical use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (BD + AI)—using an empirical approach. The paper categorises the current literature and presents a multi-case study of 'on-the-ground' ethical issues that uses qualitative tools to analyse findings from ten targeted case-studies from a range of domains. The analysis coalesces identified singular ethical issues, (from the literature), into clusters to offer a comparison with the proposed classificati…Read more
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14David Schmidtz & Robert E Goodin, Social Welfare and individual Responsibility (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 3 (2): 227-228. 2000.
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208Artificial intelligence ethics guidelines for developers and users: clarifying their content and normative implicationsJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 19 (1): 61-86. 2021.Purpose The purpose of this paper is clearly illustrate this convergence and the prescriptive recommendations that such documents entail. There is a significant amount of research into the ethical consequences of artificial intelligence. This is reflected by many outputs across academia, policy and the media. Many of these outputs aim to provide guidance to particular stakeholder groups. It has recently been shown that there is a large degree of convergence in terms of the principles upon which …Read more
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34This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways to learn about ethical dilemmas and to achieve insights into various complexities and stakeholder perspectives. Given the omnipresence of AI ethics in academic, policy and media debates, the book will be suitable for a wide range of audiences, from scholars of different discipli…Read more
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78Organisational responses to the ethical issues of artificial intelligenceAI and Society 37 (1): 23-37. 2022.The ethics of artificial intelligence is a widely discussed topic. There are numerous initiatives that aim to develop the principles and guidance to ensure that the development, deployment and use of AI are ethically acceptable. What is generally unclear is how organisations that make use of AI understand and address these ethical issues in practice. While there is an abundance of conceptual work on AI ethics, empirical insights are rare and often anecdotal. This paper fills the gap in our curre…Read more
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19Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?: Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovationEthics and Information Technology 23 (S1): 135-137. 2020.
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27Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic ControlSocial Epistemology 34 (4): 382-394. 2020.Over the past 20 years, the participation of laypersons or representatives of civil society has become a guiding principle in processes of research and innovation. There is now a significant litera...
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59Beyond Research Ethics: Dialogues in Neuro-ICT ResearchFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 13 419547. 2019.The increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to help facilitate neuroscience adds a new level of complexity to the question of how ethical issues of such research can be identified and addressed. Current research ethics practice, based on ethics reviews by institutional review boards (IRB) and underpinned by ethical principalism, has been widely criticised and even called ‘imperialist’. In this paper, we develop an alternative way of approaching ethics in neuro-ICT rese…Read more
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87From computer ethics to responsible research and innovation in ICTInformation and Management 51 (6): 810-818. 2014.The discourse concerning computer ethics qualifies as a reference discourse for ethics-related IS research. Theories, topics and approaches of computer ethics are reflected in IS. The paper argues that there is currently a broader development in the area of research governance, which is referred to as 'responsible research and innovation'. RRI applied to information and communication technology addresses some of the limitations of computer ethics and points toward a broader approach to the gover…Read more
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66Ethics of healthcare roboticsRobotics And Autonomous Systems 86 152-161. 2016.How can we best identify, understand, and deal with ethical and societal issues raised by healthcare robotics? This paper argues that next to ethical analysis, classic technology assessment, and philosophical speculation we need forms of reflection, dialogue, and experiment that come, quite literally, much closer to innovation practices and contexts of use. The authors discuss a number of ways how to achieve that. Informed by their experience with “embedded” ethics in technical projects and with…Read more
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33Philosophy and Information Systems: Where are We and Where Should We Go?European Journal of Information Systems. forthcoming.The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.
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9Responsibility in the interconnected economyBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 10 (3): 213-222. 2001.This article seeks to establish a link between the field of business ethics and information ethics by exploring the connection between responsibility and the Internet from an economic perspective. This link finds its expression in the moral theory of Discourse Ethics as suggested by German philosophers such as Juergen Habermas and Karl‐Otto Apel. The term responsibility points in the direction of communication and therefore leads easily to discourse ethics. The economy in general and most econom…Read more
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88Reflective Responsibility: Using IS to Ascribe Collective ResponsibilityPhilosophy of Management 4 (1): 13-24. 2004.While work in modern corporations tends to take place in groups or teams it is not quite clear which status these groups have. Are they genuine agents or are they simply collections of individuals? The question is important because the answer is often held to determine whether collectives can be viewed as subjects of responsibility. This paper raises the question of collective responsibility and focuses on the impact the use of information systems (IS) has on it. Starting with an analysis of the…Read more
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13Responsibility in the interconnected economyBusiness Ethics: A European Review 10 (3): 213-222. 2001.This article seeks to establish a link between the field of business ethics and information ethics by exploring the connection between responsibility and the Internet from an economic perspective. This link finds its expression in the moral theory of Discourse Ethics as suggested by German philosophers such as Juergen Habermas and Karl‐Otto Apel. The term responsibility points in the direction of communication and therefore leads easily to discourse ethics. The economy in general and most econom…Read more
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2320 years of ETHICOMP: time to celebrate?Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 13 (3/4): 166-175. 2015.Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to the special issue by providing background on the ETHICOMP conference series and a discussion of its role in the academic debate on ethics and computing. It provides the context that influenced the launch of the conference series and highlights its unique features. Finally, it provides an overview of the papers in the special issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines an historical account of ETHICOMP and a review of …Read more
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21Participatory design as ethical practice – concepts, reality and conditionsJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 12 (1): 10-13. 2014.Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to Christiansen's paper, Ellen Christiansen “From ‘ethics of the eye’ to ‘ethics of the hand’ by collaborative prototyping”,Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 12 No. 1.Design/methodology/approach– Reflection and critique of Christiansen's position.Findings– The paper raises questions about the conceptual basis, the realisation of participation and the conditions required for participative practice to be mo…Read more