Computer Ethics

Latest research

1. The autonomy paradox: when AI makes choices people believe they made

   • Tony Bader

   in AI and Ethics

   Article 05 February 2026

2. Cheating in the second year of generative AI chatbots: a follow-up study on high school student cheating behaviors

   • Ruishi Chen
   • Victor R. Lee
   • Sarah Miles

   in Educational technology research and development

   Article Open access 03 February 2026

   

3. Learning the value systems of agents with preference-based and inverse reinforcement learning

   • Andrés Holgado-Sánchez
   • Holger Billhardt
   • Sascha Ossowski

   in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

   Article Open access 03 February 2026

   

4. Bias and Oversight in Clinical AI: A Review of Decision Support Tools and Equity Frameworks

   • Farrah Adegunle
   • Karanjot Chhatwal
   • Andrew M. Goldsweig

   in Journal of General Internal Medicine

   Article 02 February 2026

   

5. Against AI ethics: challenging the conventional narratives

   • Saleh Afroogh
   • Yasser Pouresmaeil
   • Amit Dhurandhar

   in AI and Ethics

   Article 29 January 2026

   

6. Justification optional: ChatGPT’s advice can still influence human judgments about moral dilemmas

   • Sebastian Krügel
   • Andreas Ostermaier
   • Matthias Uhl

   in AI and Ethics

   Article Open access 28 January 2026

   

7. An overview of AI ethics: moral concerns through the lens of principles, lived realities and power structures

   • Elizabeth Liz M. Groen
   • Tamar Sharon
   • Marcel Becker

   in AI and Ethics

   Article Open access 28 January 2026

8. A student guide to using AI: Benefits, risks, and ethical use

   • Gailene Nelson

   in BDJ Student

   Article 26 January 2026

   

9. Dangerous gatekeeping

   • David Gunkel
   • Anna Puzio
   • Joshua Gellers

   in AI & SOCIETY

   Article 21 January 2026

10. Responsible Assessment of Beliefs Based on Computational Results: Expanding on Computational Reliabilism

    • Michael W. Schmidt
    • Heinrich Blatt

    in Minds and Machines

    Article Open access 21 January 2026

11. Ethical Challenges of New Technologies and Insights from Research Ethics Experts on Oversight of AI in Health, Extended Reality, Gene Editing and Biobanking

    • Vilma Lukaševičienė
    • Vygintas Aliukonis
    • Daniela Proske

    in NanoEthics

    Article Open access 21 January 2026

    

12. SME-TEAM: leveraging trust and ethics for secure and responsible use of AI and LLMs in SMEs

    • Iqbal H. Sarker
    • Helge Janicke
    • Leandros Maglaras

    in npj Artificial Intelligence

    Article Open access 20 January 2026

    

13. A world without violet: peculiar consequences of granting moral status to Artificial Intelligences

    • Sever Ioan Topan

    in AI & SOCIETY

    Article Open access 19 January 2026

14. Dual path fairness optimization for graph neural network based recommendation

    • Chengyong Yang
    • Kefan Lu
    • Jianlin Cheng

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 16 January 2026

    

15. Verantwortungsvoller Einsatz von KI und Robotik in der Medizin

    • Florian Funer

    in HNO

    Article Open access 15 January 2026

16. Contractualism and meaningful work: AI-supported decision-making in technological innovation

    • Marco Innocenti

    in AI and Ethics

    Article 14 January 2026

    

17. Algorithmic fairness in context: liberty, opportunity, and well-being as ethical anchors

    • Arif Perdana
    • Phoebe Li
    • Grace Wangge

    in AI and Ethics

    Article 14 January 2026

    

18. The ethics of algorithmic visibility: power and resistance in AI surveillance at construction sites from a critical theory perspective

    • Lulu Li
    • Zipeng Wang

    in AI and Ethics

    Article 13 January 2026

19. Facing the pain: ethical considerations of AI-based pain detection of farmed animals

    • Mark Ryan
    • Leonie Bossert

    in AI and Ethics

    Article Open access 13 January 2026

20. Does Accountability Require Agency? Comment on Responsibility and Accountability in the Algorithmic Society

    • Tillmann Vierkant

    in Philosophy & Technology

    Article Open access 12 January 2026

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