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A European Agency for Artificial Intelligence: Protecting fundamental rights and ethical values (2022)
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Stahl, B. C., Rodrigues, R., Santiago, N., & Macnish, K. (2022). A European Agency for Artificial Intelligence: Protecting fundamental rights and ethical values. Computer Law and Security Review, 45, Article 105661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2022.105661

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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Schirner, M., Domide, L., Perdikis, D., Triebkorn, P., Stefanovski, L., Pai, R., …Ritter, P. (2022). Brain simulation as a cloud service: The Virtual Brain on EBRAINS. NeuroImage, 251, Article 118973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118973

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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Eke, D., Aasebø, I. E., Akintoye, S., Knight, W., Karakasidis, A., Mikulan, E., …Zehl, L. (2021). Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility. NeuroImage: Reports, 1(4), Article 100053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100053

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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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)
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Stahl, B. C., Akintoye, S., Bitsch, L., Bringedal, B., Eke, D., Farisco, M., …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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Who is Responsible for Responsible Innovation? Lessons From an Investigation into Responsible Innovation in Health Comment on "What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review" (2019)
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Stahl, B. C. (2019). Who is Responsible for Responsible Innovation? Lessons From an Investigation into Responsible Innovation in Health Comment on "What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 8(7), 447-449. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.32

Responsible innovation in health (RIH) takes the ideas of responsible research and innovation (RRI) and applies them to the health sector. This comment takes its point of departure from Lehoux et al which describes a structured literature review to d... Read More about Who is Responsible for Responsible Innovation? Lessons From an Investigation into Responsible Innovation in Health Comment on "What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review".

Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry—Challenges, Insights and Perspectives (2018)
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Martinuzzi, A., Blok, V., Brem, A., Stahl, B., & Schönherr, N. (2018). Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry—Challenges, Insights and Perspectives. Sustainability, 10(3), Article 702. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10030702

The responsibility of industry towards society and the environment is a much discussed topic, both in academia and in business. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has recently emerged as a new concept with the potential to advance this discour... Read More about Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry—Challenges, Insights and Perspectives.