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Africa, ChatGPT, and Generative AI Systems: Ethical Benefits, Concerns, and the Need for Governance (2024)
Journal Article

This paper examines the impact and implications of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies within the African context while looking at the ethical benefits and concerns that are particularly pertinent to the continent. Through a robust analysis... Read More about Africa, ChatGPT, and Generative AI Systems: Ethical Benefits, Concerns, and the Need for Governance.

Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance (2024)
Journal Article

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.

brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research (2024)
Journal Article

Neuroscience is advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, data pipeline complexity has increased, hindering FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) access. brainlife.io was develop... Read More about brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research.

Ethics in the Governance of Data and Digital Technology: An Analysis of European Data Regulations and Policies (2024)
Journal Article

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.

Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (2023)
Book

This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical Afric... Read More about Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.

Corrigendum: Towards an understanding of global brain data governance: ethical positions that underpin global brain data governance discourse (2023)
Journal Article

In the published article, there was an error in the author list arrangement, the corrected author list appears below. Paschal Ochang1*, Damian Eke1 and Bernd Carsten Stahl1,2 The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change th... Read More about Corrigendum: Towards an understanding of global brain data governance: ethical positions that underpin global brain data governance discourse.

Towards an understanding of global brain data governance: ethical positions that underpin global brain data governance discourse (2023)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Assessing responsible innovation training (2023)
Journal Article

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.

ChatGPT and the rise of generative AI: Threat to academic integrity? (2023)
Journal Article

The emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT has put intense spotlight on Generative AI (Gen-AI) systems and their possible impacts on Academic integrity. This paper provides an overview of the current arguments around ChatGPT and Academic integrity and conclud... Read More about ChatGPT and the rise of generative AI: Threat to academic integrity?.

Towards Shaping the Future of Responsible AI in Africa (2023)
Book Chapter

Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented opportunities for Africa. Increasingly, AI and other emerging technologies are being deployed in African contexts—healthcare, agriculture, sociopolitical processes, businesses and education—in ways... Read More about Towards Shaping the Future of Responsible AI in Africa.

Forgotten African AI Narratives and the future of AI in Africa (2022)
Journal Article

Ancient and contemporary imaginative thoughts, stories, literary works, and beliefs about intelligent machines or otherwise known as AI narratives influence the development, implementation and governance of AI. Responsible AI therefore requires the u... Read More about Forgotten African AI Narratives and the future of AI in Africa.

Nigeria’s Digital Identification (ID) Management Program: Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural concerns (2022)
Journal Article

National digital identity management systems have gained traction as a critical tool for inclusion of citizens in the increasingly digitised public services. With the help of the World Bank, countries around the world are committing to building and p... Read More about Nigeria’s Digital Identification (ID) Management Program: Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural concerns.

Responsible AI, SDGs, and AI Governance in Africa (2022)
Conference Proceeding

More than ever before, AI is now an area of national strategic importance. This has become quite evident with the proliferation of national AI strategies since the first was launched in Canada in 2017. There is now an ever-growing body of national AI... Read More about Responsible AI, SDGs, and AI Governance in Africa.

International data governance for neuroscience (2021)
Journal Article

As neuroscience projects increase in scale and cross international borders, different ethical principles, national and international laws, regulations, and policies for data sharing must be considered. These concerns are part of what is collectively... Read More about International data governance for neuroscience.

Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose Digital contact tracing technologies are critical to the fight against COVID-19 in many countries including the UK. However, a number of ethical, legal and socio-economic concerns that can affect uptake of the app have been raised. The purpo... Read More about Understanding the perceptions of UK COVID-19 contact tracing app in the BAME community in Leicester.

Pseudonymisation of neuroimages and data protection: Increasing access to data while retaining scientific utility (2021)
Journal Article

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.

The Digital Network of Networks: Regulatory Risk and Policy Challenges of Vaccine Passports (2021)
Journal Article

The extensive disruption to and digital transformation of travel administration across borders largely due to COVID-19 mean that digital vaccine passports are being developed to resume international travel and kick-start the global economy. Currently... Read More about The Digital Network of Networks: Regulatory Risk and Policy Challenges of Vaccine Passports.

From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design (2021)
Journal Article

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.

Good governance as a response to discontents? Déjà vu, or lessons for AI from other emerging technologies (2021)
Journal Article

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.