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Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems (2023)
Journal Article
Houghtaling, M. A., Fiorini, S. R., Fabiano, N., Gonçalves, P. J. S., Ulgen, O., Haidegger, T., Carbonera, J. L., Olszewska, J. I., Page, B., Murahwi, Z., & Prestes, E. (2024). Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(3), 1791-1804. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2023.3330981

Domain-specific ontologies support system design and can establish a framework for fulfilling user-level, safety, or ethical requirements. The IEEE 7007-2021 Ontological Standard for ethically driven robotics and automation systems is the first indus... Read More about Standardizing an Ontology for Ethically Aligned Robotic and Autonomous Systems.

Case C-460/20, TU, RE v. Google LLC (C.J.E.U.) (2023)
Journal Article
Ulgen, O. (2023). Case C-460/20, TU, RE v. Google LLC (C.J.E.U.). International Legal Materials, 62(6), 1062-1083. https://doi.org/10.1017/ilm.2023.31

On December 8, 2022, in a case relating to a de-referencing request to an internet search engine operator on the basis of inaccurate information, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment (the Judgm... Read More about Case C-460/20, TU, RE v. Google LLC (C.J.E.U.).

Devolution Issues Under the Scotland Act 1998, Reference by the Lord Advocate (U.K. Sup. Ct.) (2023)
Journal Article
Ulgen, O. (2023). Devolution Issues Under the Scotland Act 1998, Reference by the Lord Advocate (U.K. Sup. Ct.). International Legal Materials, 62(6), 1089-1112. https://doi.org/10.1017/ilm.2023.30

On November 23, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered its judgment on whether the Scottish Parliament has legislative competence to introduce a Scottish Independence Referendum Bill (the Bill) to hold a referendum in Scotland asking... Read More about Devolution Issues Under the Scotland Act 1998, Reference by the Lord Advocate (U.K. Sup. Ct.).

AI and the Crisis of the Self Protecting Human Dignity as Status and Respectful Treatment (2022)
Book Chapter
Ulgen, O. (2022). AI and the Crisis of the Self Protecting Human Dignity as Status and Respectful Treatment. In A. J. Hampton, & J. A. DeFalco (Eds.), Law and Moral Philosophy to Center Human Dignity as an Indicator of Ethical AI: Concerns, Cultural Touchpoints, Paths Forward. Routledge

Human dignity as a universal moral value has not previously been explored as an important indicator of whether AI is ethically designed, developed, and deployed. Drawing on law and moral philosophy, this chapter develops a legal-philosophical concept... Read More about AI and the Crisis of the Self Protecting Human Dignity as Status and Respectful Treatment.

The Cosmopolitan “No-Harm” Duty in Warfare: Exposing the Utilitarian Pretence of Universalism (2022)
Journal Article
Ulgen, O. (2022). The Cosmopolitan “No-Harm” Duty in Warfare: Exposing the Utilitarian Pretence of Universalism. Athena : Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, 2(1), 116-151. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2724-6299/14648

This article demonstrates a priori cosmopolitan values of restraint and harm limitation exist to establish a cosmopolitan “no-harm” duty in warfare, predating utilitarianism and permeating modern international humanitarian law. In doing so, the autho... Read More about The Cosmopolitan “No-Harm” Duty in Warfare: Exposing the Utilitarian Pretence of Universalism.

The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards] (2021)
Journal Article
Prestes, E., Houghtaling, M. A., Goncalves, P. J., Fabiano, N., Ulgen, O., Fiorini, S. R., Murahwi, Z., Olszewska, J. I., & Haidegger, T. (2021). The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 28(4), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2021.3117414

In the complex and rapidly evolving fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, the elaboration of ethical concerns, considerations, and requirements helps elucidate the nature of technology’s reach and impact on society where there is a leg... Read More about The First Global Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems [Standards].

Human Dignity in an Age of Autonomous Weapons: Are We in Danger of Losing an 'Elementary Consideration of Humanity'? (2020)
Journal Article
Ulgen, O. (2020). Human Dignity in an Age of Autonomous Weapons: Are We in Danger of Losing an 'Elementary Consideration of Humanity'?. Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online, 17(1), 167-196. https://doi.org/10.1163/22115897_01701_009

Military investment in robotics technology is leading to development and use of autonomous weapons, which are machines with varying degrees of autonomy in target, attack, and infliction of lethal harm (that is, injury, suffering or death). Examples o... Read More about Human Dignity in an Age of Autonomous Weapons: Are We in Danger of Losing an 'Elementary Consideration of Humanity'?.

User Rights and Adaptive A/IS – From Passive Interaction to Real Empowerment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ulgen, O. (2020, July). User Rights and Adaptive A/IS – From Passive Interaction to Real Empowerment

Adaptive autonomous intelligent systems (A/IS) may satisfy design functionality and user experiential requirements but prior to deployment an assessment must be made of their impact on user rights. A/IS systems may assist rather than replace humans b... Read More about User Rights and Adaptive A/IS – From Passive Interaction to Real Empowerment.

“World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases (2018)
Journal Article
Ulgen, O. (2018). “World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases. New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, 14(2016), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004345911_002

Forty-four years after the ICJ provisional measures orders in the Nuclear Test Cases requesting France stop atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific, we are facing another deadly threat from the use and development of "robot weapons".... Read More about “World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases.