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    Children-Robot Friendship, Moral Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Development
    with Radu Uszkai, Constantin Vica, and Cristina Voinea
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9. 2022.
    Social robots are increasingly developed for the companionship of children. In this article we explore the moral implications of children-robot friendships using the Aristotelian framework of virtue ethics. We adopt a moderate position and argue that, although robots cannot be virtue friends, they can nonetheless enable children to exercise ethical and intellectual virtues. The Aristotelian requirements for true friendship apply only partly to children: unlike adults, children relate to friendsh…Read more
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    Can Robotic AI Systems Be Virtuous and Why Does This Matter?
    International Journal of Social Robotics 14 (6). 2022.
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    Robo-Education and the Pedagogical Divide
    In Raul Hakli, Pekka Mäkelä & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Social Robots in Social Institutions, Ios Press. pp. 174-183. 2022.
    On the background of recent concerns regarding online education in times of pandemic and a growing pedagogical divide in terms of unequal access to skilled teachers, we consider it timely to open a debate surrounding the use of social robots in education fulfilling a role that is anchored in the institution of pedagogs in Antiquity and which was somewhat left aside from contemporary inquiries: the pedagogical role of supporting and complementing the teaching activity. We develop our conceptual p…Read more
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    Corporations as Moral Entities
    with Muel Kaptein
    In Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 487-490. 2021.
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    Blame It on the AI? On the Moral Responsibility of Artificial Moral Advisors
    with Constantin Vică, Radu Uszkai, and Cristina Voinea
    Philosophy and Technology 35 (2): 1-26. 2022.
    Deep learning AI systems have proven a wide capacity to take over human-related activities such as car driving, medical diagnosing, or elderly care, often displaying behaviour with unpredictable consequences, including negative ones. This has raised the question whether highly autonomous AI may qualify as morally responsible agents. In this article, we develop a set of four conditions that an entity needs to meet in order to be ascribed moral responsibility, by drawing on Aristotelian ethics and…Read more
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    Etică și integritate academică
    with Emanuel Socaciu, Constantin Vică, Emilian Mihailov, Toni Gibea, and Valentin Mureşan
    Editura Universității din București. 2018.
    „Strategia noastră a fost de a gândi un text util pentru profesori, dar de a-l scrie mai ales pentru studenți. Etica este interesantă cu precădere atunci când pune în joc intuiții morale sau valori diferite și când ne confruntăm cu dileme în care decizia nu este evidentă, iar dezacordul este rezonabil. Prin urmare, am încercat să ne ferim pe cât a fost posibil de verdicte și de simpla enumerare a unor interdicții. Veți observa că, de cele mai multe ori, exercițiile și temele de discuție nu au so…Read more
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    Moral responsibility for outcomes in corporate settings can be ascribed either to the individual members, the corporation, or both. In the latter case, the relationship between individual and corporate responsibility has been approached as inversely proportional, such that an increase in individual responsibility leads to a corresponding decrease in corporate responsibility and vice versa. In this article, we develop a non-proportionate approach, where, under specific conditions, individual and …Read more
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    Virtue and virtuousness in organizations: Guidelines for ascribing individual and organizational moral responsibility
    with Muel Kaptein
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 30 (4): 801-817. 2021.
    This article advances research on moral responsibility in organizations by drawing on both philosophical virtue ethics grounded in the Aristotelian tradition and Positive Organizational Scholarship research concerned with virtuousness. The article discusses the very conditions that make possible the realization of virtues and virtuousness, respectively. These conditions ground notions of moral responsibility and the resulting praise or blame on organizational contexts. Thus, we analyze the way i…Read more
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    Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context
    with Cristina Voinea, Radu Uszkai, and Constantin Vică
    Ethics and Information Technology 23 (4): 803-814. 2021.
    During the last decade there has been burgeoning research concerning the ways in which we should think of and apply the concept of responsibility for Artificial Intelligence. Despite this conceptual richness, there is still a lack of consensus regarding what Responsible AI entails on both conceptual and practical levels. The aim of this paper is to connect the ethical dimension of responsibility in Responsible AI with Aristotelian virtue ethics, where notions of context and dianoetic virtues pla…Read more
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    8 Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees: A Holistic Approach to Health-Care Organizational Ethics
    In Emilian Mihailov, Tenzin Wangmo, Victoria Federiuc & Bernice S. Elger (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives, De Gruyter Open. pp. 86-96. 2018.