All Outputs (36)

From Corporate Digital Responsibility to Responsible Digital Ecosystems (2024)
Journal Article

The significant and rapidly growing impact that digital technologies has on all aspects of our lives has raised awareness of benefits but also concerns and worries linked to the development and use of these technologies. The concept of responsibility... Read More about From Corporate Digital Responsibility to Responsible Digital Ecosystems.

Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance (2024)
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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 fram... Read More about Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance.

A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI (2024)
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Despite 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 th... Read More about A method for the ethical analysis of brain-inspired AI.

Ethics in the Governance of Data and Digital Technology: An Analysis of European Data Regulations and Policies (2024)
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Addressing ethical concerns is among the fundamental motivations for the development of policies and regulations for data and digital technologies. In the last few years, the European Commission has issued a number of policies, regulations and legisl... Read More about Ethics in the Governance of Data and Digital Technology: An Analysis of European Data Regulations and Policies.

Critical responsible innovation – the role(s) of the researcher (2024)
Journal Article

Critical theory (CT) is a widely used theoretical approach that can be used to describe, understand and justify interventions into scientific and technical research and innovation. It can thus be considered a potential theoretical underpinning of res... Read More about Critical responsible innovation – the role(s) of the researcher.

Towards an understanding of global brain data governance: ethical positions that underpin global brain data governance discourse (2023)
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Introduction: The study of the brain continues to generate substantial volumes of data, commonly referred to as “big brain data,” which serves various purposes such as the treatment of brain-related diseases, the development of neurotechnological dev... Read More about Towards an understanding of global brain data governance: ethical positions that underpin global brain data governance discourse.

The ethics of ChatGPT – Exploring the ethical issues of an emerging technology (2023)
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This article explores ethical issues raised by generative conversational AI systems like ChatGPT. It applies established approaches for analysing ethics of emerging technologies to undertake a systematic review of possible benefits and concerns. The... Read More about The ethics of ChatGPT – Exploring the ethical issues of an emerging technology.

Time to consider animal data governance: perspectives from neuroscience (2023)
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Introduction: Scientific research relies mainly on multimodal, multidimensional big data generated from both animal and human organisms as well as technical data. However, unlike human data that is increasingly regulated at national, regional and int... Read More about Time to consider animal data governance: perspectives from neuroscience.

Assessing responsible innovation training (2023)
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There is broad agreement that one important aspect of responsible innovation (RI) is to provide training on its principles and practices to current and future researchers and innovators, notably including doctoral students. Much less agreement can be... Read More about Assessing responsible innovation training.

Embedding responsibility in intelligent systems: from AI ethics to responsible AI ecosystems (2023)
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Intelligent systems that are capable of making autonomous decisions based on input from their environment have great potential to do good, but they also raise significant social and ethical concerns. The discourse on ethics and artificial intelligenc... Read More about Embedding responsibility in intelligent systems: from AI ethics to responsible AI ecosystems.

A systematic review of artificial intelligence impact assessments (2023)
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is producing highly beneficial impacts in many domains, from transport to healthcare, from energy distribution to marketing, but it also raises concerns about undesirable ethical and social consequences. AI impact assessm... Read More about A systematic review of artificial intelligence impact assessments.

Exploring ethics and human rights in artificial intelligence – A Delphi study (2023)
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Ethical and human rights issues of artificial intelligence (AI) are a prominent topic of research and innovation policy as well as societal and scientific debate. It is broadly recognised that AI-related technologies have properties that can give ris... Read More about Exploring ethics and human rights in artificial intelligence – A Delphi study.

Building a responsible innovation toolkit as project legacy (2023)
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This article explores whether and in what way it is possible to employ toolkits for responsible research and innovation (RRI toolkits) as mechanisms for ensuring the legacy of RRI in research projects. Based on a review of the concept of responsible... Read More about Building a responsible innovation toolkit as project legacy.

“So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy (2023)
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Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportu... Read More about “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy.

The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance (2022)
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Neuroscience research is producing big brain data which informs both advancements in neuroscience research and drives the development of advanced datasets to provide advanced medical solutions. These brain data are produced under different jurisdicti... Read More about The ethical and legal landscape of brain data governance.

Assessing the ethical and social concerns of artificial intelligence in neuroinformatics research: an empirical test of the European Union Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI) (2022)
Journal Article

Ethical and social concerns are a key obstacle to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the life sciences and beyond. The discussion of these issues has intensified in recent years and led to a number of approaches, tools and initiatives. K... Read More about Assessing the ethical and social concerns of artificial intelligence in neuroinformatics research: an empirical test of the European Union Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI).

A European Agency for Artificial Intelligence: Protecting fundamental rights and ethical values (2022)
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Following years of intensive international debate of the ethical and human rights implications of artificial intelligence (AI)-related technologies, there are numerous proposals to legislate and regulate these technologies. One aspect of possible leg... Read More about A European Agency for Artificial Intelligence: Protecting fundamental rights and ethical values.

Brain simulation as a cloud service: The Virtual Brain on EBRAINS (2022)
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The Virtual Brain (TVB) is now available as open-source services on the cloud research platform EBRAINS (ebrains.eu). It offers software for constructing, simulating and analysing brain network models including the TVB simulator; magnetic resonance i... Read More about Brain simulation as a cloud service: The Virtual Brain on EBRAINS.

Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility (2021)
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For a number of years, facial features removal techniques such as ‘defacing’, ‘skull stripping’ and ‘face masking/blurring’, were considered adequate privacy preserving tools to openly share brain images. Scientifically, these measures were already a... Read More about Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility.

From computer ethics and the ethics of AI towards an ethics of digital ecosystems (2021)
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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.