Outputs (60)

From computer ethics and the ethics of AI towards an ethics of digital ecosystems (2021)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C. (2022). From computer ethics and the ethics of AI towards an ethics of digital ecosystems. AI and Ethics, 2(1), 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00080-1

Ethical, social and human rights aspects of computing technologies have been discussed since the inception of these technologies. In the 1980s, this led to the development of a discourse often referred to as computer ethics. More recently, since the... Read More about From computer ethics and the ethics of AI towards an ethics of digital ecosystems.

From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design (2021)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Akintoye, S., Bitsch, L., Bringedal, B., Eke, D., Farisco, M., Grasenick, K., Guerrero, M., Knight, W., Leach, T., Nyholm, S., Ogoh, G., Rosemann, A., Salles, A., Trattnig, J., & Ulnicane, I. (2021). From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 8(2), 175-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2021.1955613

Drawing on more than eight years working to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Human Brain Project, a large EU-funded research project that brings together neuroscience, computing, social sciences, and the humanities, and one... Read More about From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design.

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies (2021)
Book
Stahl, B. C. (2021). Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies. Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69978-9

Offers a novel conceptualisation of the AI ethics debate by applying the discourse of innovation ecosystems to AI

Practice-oriented with an aim to give stakeholders and decisions makers conceptually sound and empirically rich ways of dealing with... Read More about Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies.

Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies (2021)
Journal Article
Ulnicane, I., Eke, D. O., Knight, W., Ogoh, G., & Stahl, B. C. (2021). Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 46(1-2), 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2020.1840220

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to intense debates about benefits and concerns associated with this powerful technology. These concerns and debates have similarities with developments in other emerging technologies characteri... Read More about Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies.

Organisational responses to the ethical issues of artificial intelligence (2021)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Antoniou, J., Ryan, M., Macnish, K., & Jiya, T. (2022). Organisational responses to the ethical issues of artificial intelligence. AI & Society, 37(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01148-6

The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) 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 generall... Read More about Organisational responses to the ethical issues of artificial intelligence.

Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy (2020)
Journal Article
Ulnicane, I., Knight, W., Leach, T., Stahl, B. C., & Wanjiku, W.-G. (2021). Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy. Policy and Society, 40(2), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1855800

This paper examines how the governance in AI policy documents have been framed as way to resolve public controversies surrounding AI. It draws on the studies of governance of emerging technologies, the concept of policy framing, and analysis of 49 re... Read More about Framing governance for a contested emerging technology:insights from AI policy.

Artificial intelligence for human flourishing – Beyond principles for machine learning (2020)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Andreou, A., Brey, P., Hatzakis, T., Kirichenko, A., Macnish, K., Laulhé Shaelou, S., Patel, A., Ryan, M., & Wright, D. (2021). Artificial intelligence for human flourishing – Beyond principles for machine learning. Journal of Business Research, 124, 374-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.11.030

The technical and economic benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are counterbalanced by legal, social and ethical issues. It is challenging to conceptually capture and empirically measure both benefits and downsides. We therefore provide an accoun... Read More about Artificial intelligence for human flourishing – Beyond principles for machine learning.

From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: Calibrating responsibility in the funding process (2020)
Journal Article
Grimpe, B., Stahl, B. C., Ten Holter, C., Inglesant, P., Eden, G., Patel, M., & Jirotka, M. (2020). From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: Calibrating responsibility in the funding process. Science and Public Policy, 47(5), 720-732. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa038

Science–policy organisations are expected to be reflexive of their political influence on research and society. In this long-standing discourse on institutional reflexivity, formal organisations have largely been considered as a whole, and from a str... Read More about From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: Calibrating responsibility in the funding process.

Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?: Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation (2020)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C. (2021). Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?: Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation. Ethics and Information Technology, 23(S1), 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09551-1

Digital technology plays a key role during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is used to hunt for vaccination and treatment; it helps us collect and represent the data to understand the progress of the disease and it contributes to tracking and tracing infect... Read More about Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?: Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation.

The Ethical Balance of Using Smart Information Systems for Promoting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (2020)
Journal Article
Ryan, M., Antoniou, J., Brooks, L., Jiya, T., Macnish, K., & Stahl, B. (2020). The Ethical Balance of Using Smart Information Systems for Promoting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability, 12(12), Article 4826. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124826

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are internationally agreed goals that allow us to determine what humanity, as represented by 193 member states, finds acceptable and desirable. The paper explores how technology can be used to address the SDGs... Read More about The Ethical Balance of Using Smart Information Systems for Promoting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.