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    • Loving robots changing love: Towards a practical deficiency-love 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article, 2021)
      Robots are today made not only to assist us in menial tasks and routine labour but also provide companionship and love. This has generated much academic and public interest, and people have asked whether robots can love, ...

    • Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview 

      Danaher, John; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of ...

    • Normativity assumptions in the design and application of social robots forautistic children 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard; Dahl, Christine (Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2022)
      Social robots interact with human beings and are used for a variety of therapeutic purposes, for example in interaction with children with neurodevelopmental disorders. A key ethical issue related to the ...

    • The Parasitic Nature of Social AI: Sharing Minds with the Mindless 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03-17)
      Can artificial intelligence (AI) develop the potential to be our partner, and will we be as sensitive to its social signals as we are to those of human beings? I examine both of these questions and how cultural psychology ...

    • Privacy as an aggregate public good 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-23)
      Privacy relates to individuals and their ability to keep certain aspects of themselves away from other individuals and organisations. This leads both proponents and opponents of liberalism to argue that liberalism involves ...

    • Psychological interference, liberty and technology 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Mills, Stuart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Power and the use of force are central concerns in liberal political theory. Yet, it is claimed that liberal theory fails to account for the power that is exerted through, for example, personalised nudging based on Big ...

    • Research in AI has Implications for Society: How do we Respond? 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard (Journal article, 2021)
      Artificial intelligence (AI) offers previously unimaginable possibilities, solving problems faster and more creatively than before, representing and inviting hope and change, but also fear and resistance. Unfortunately, ...

    • Resolving the battle of short- vs. long-term AI risks 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Danaher, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      AI poses both short- and long-term risks, but the AI ethics and regulatory communities are struggling to agree on how to think two thoughts at the same time. While disagreements over the exact probabilities and impacts of ...

    • Robotomorphy: Becoming our creations 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Humans and gods alike have since the dawn of time created objects in their own image. From clay fgures and wooden toys—some granted life in myths and movies but also dead representations of their creators—to modern-day ...

    • Scaffolding Human Champions: AI as a More Competent Other 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Artifcial intelligence (AI) has surpassed humans in a number of specialised intellectual activities—chess and Go being two of many examples. Amongst the many potential consequences of such a development, I focus on how we ...

    • Science as a Vocation in the Era of Big Data: the Philosophy of Science behind Big Data and humanity’s Continued Part in Science 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-05)
      We now live in the era of big data, and according to its proponents, big data is poised to change science as we know it. Claims of having no theory and no ideology are made, and there is an assumption that the results of ...

    • A shallow defence of a technocracy of artificial intelligence: Examining the political harms of algorithmic governance in the domain of government 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be superior to human decision-making in certain areas. This is partic-ularly the case whenever there is a need for advanced strategic reasoning and analysis of vast amounts of ...

    • Social robot deception and the culture of trust 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Human beings are deeply social, and both evolutionary traits and cultural constructs encourage cooperation based on trust. Social robots interject themselves in human social settings, and they can be used for deceptive ...

    • Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust 

      Danaher, John; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Technologies can have profound efects on social moral systems. Is there any way to systematically investigate and anticipate these potential efects? This paper aims to contribute to this emerging feld on inquiry through a ...

    • The Ghost in the Machine: Being Human in the Age of AI and Machine Learning 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-19)
      Human beings have used technology to improve their efficiency throughout history. We continue to do so today, but we are no longer only using technology to perform physical tasks. Today, we make computers that are smart ...

    • The tyranny of perceived opinion: Freedom and information in the era of big data 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-08)
      Never before have we had access to as much information as we do today, but how do we avail ourselves of it? In parallel with the increase in the amount of information, we have created means of curating and delivering it ...

    • To Each Technology Its Own Ethics: The Problem of Ethical Proliferation 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Danaher, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Ethics plays a key role in the normative analysis of the impacts of technology. We know that computers in general and the processing of data, the use of artificial intelligence, and the combination of computers and/or ...

    • Towards a Hobbesian liberal democracy through a Maslowian hierarchy of needs 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Thomas Hobbes is a mainstay in political theory, but his political philosophy is often perceived as being marred by his insistence on absolute power and the rule of one—or the few. In this article I examine how a ...

    • Using Padlet to Enable Online Collaborative Mediation and Scaffolding in a Statistics Course 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Students often perceive statistics as a difficult subject, and it is frequently named as one of the primary causes of high dropout rates in economics educations in Norway. In order to support the learning process in ...

    • When nudge comes to shove: Liberty and nudging in the era of big data 

      Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-26)
      In this article, I examine how nudging powered by Big Data relates to both negative and positive liberty. I focus in particular on how liberty is affected by appeals to irrational mechanisms. I conclude that it is problematic ...