All Outputs (8)

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. (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., …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.

Artificial intelligence ethics guidelines for developers and users: clarifying their content and normative implications (2020)
Journal Article
Ryan, M., & Stahl, B. C. (2021). Artificial intelligence ethics guidelines for developers and users: clarifying their content and normative implications. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 19(1), 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-12-2019-0138

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 (AI). This i... Read More about Artificial intelligence ethics guidelines for developers and users: clarifying their content and normative implications.

The future of ICT for health and ageing: Unveiling ethical and social issues through horizon scanning foresight (2020)
Journal Article
Flick, C., Zamani, E. D., Stahl, B. C., & Brem, A. (2020). The future of ICT for health and ageing: Unveiling ethical and social issues through horizon scanning foresight. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 155, Article 119995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119995

This paper uses horizon scanning as a foresight methodology to investigate the opportunities, challenges and futures of ICT for health and ageing, particularly focusing on identifying the ethical and social issues associated with this sector. It uses... Read More about The future of ICT for health and ageing: Unveiling ethical and social issues through horizon scanning foresight.

Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control (2020)
Journal Article
Böschen, S., Legris, M., Pfersdorf, S., & Stahl, B. C. (2020). Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control. Social Epistemology, 34(4), 382-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1706121

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 literature discussing collaboration between civil society o... Read More about Identity Politics: Participatory Research and Its Challenges Related to Social and Epistemic Control.