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Against the Conflation of Corporate Strategy, Ethics, and the Politics of AI
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article, 2023)Ethics as we know it is ill equipped to resist abuse by technology companies, Van Maanen argues in a recent article. Ethics is too malleable, provides too many different theories, and allows for a plethora of ethical ... -
The AI ESG protocol: Evaluating and disclosing the environment, social, and governance implications of artificial intelligence capabilities, assets, and activities
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)AI and data are key strategic resources and enablers of the digital transition. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data are also intimately related to a company's environment, social, and governance (ESG) performance and the ... -
The AI ethicist’s dilemma: fighting Big Tech by supporting Big Tech
Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Coeckelbergh, Mark; Danaher, John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-08)Assume that a researcher uncovers a major problem with how social media are currently used. What sort of challenges arise when they must subsequently decide whether or not to use social media to create awareness about this ... -
AI in Context and the Sustainable Development Goals: Factoring in the Unsustainability of the Sociotechnical System
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-05)Artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with both positive and negative impacts on both people and planet, and much attention is currently devoted to analyzing and valuating these impacts. In 2015, the UN set 17 Sustainable ... -
Artificial Emotions and the Evolving Moral Status of Social Robots
Sica, Arianna; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Chapter, 2024)This article aims to explore the potential impact of artificial emotional intelligence (AEI) on the ethical standing of social robots. By examining how AEI interacts with and potentially reshapes the two dominant perspectives ... -
The autonomous choice architect
Mills, Stuart; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Choice architecture describes the environment in which choices are presented to decision-makers. In recent years, public and private actors have looked at choice architecture with great interest as they seek to influence ... -
Challenging the Neo-Anthropocentric Relational Approach to Robot Rights
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)When will it make sense to consider robots candidates for moral standing? Major disagreements exist between those who find that question important and those who do not, and also between those united in their willingness ... -
A Classical Liberal Argument Against Parental Rights
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)That the freedom of one individual entails the unfreedom of another is a fundamental challenge for liberalism, and this article examines how children pose a problem for certain varieties of liberalism. It begins by showing ... -
Climate change and the political pathways of AI: The technocracy-democracy dilemma in light of artificial intelligence and human agency
Coeckelbergh, Mark; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)It is generally thought that artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on politics and democracy. Meanwhile, the technology is also often hailed a solution to key societal and environmental challenges. It raises ... -
Confounding Complexity of Machine Action: A Hobbesian Account of Machine Responsibility
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In this article, the core concepts in Thomas Hobbes’s framework of representation and responsibility are applied to the question of machine responsibility and the responsibility gap and the retribution gap. The method is ... -
The ethics of trading privacy for security: The multifaceted effects of privacy on liberty and security
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)A recurring question in political philosophy is how to understand and analyse the trade-off between security and liberty. With modern technology, however, it is possible to argue that the former trade-off can be exchanged ... -
Exploring the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in mixed methods research
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Agent-based modeling (ABM) is in many ways an outsider in social research methods, but I will here argue that it has an important role to play in combination with other methods and approaches. ABM can be used in ways that ... -
First, They Came for the Old and Demented: Care and Relations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Social Robots
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-04)Health care technology is all the rage, and artificial intelligence (AI) has long since made its inroads into the previously human-dominated domain of care. AI is used in diagnostics, but also in therapy and assistance, ... -
The foundations of a policy for the use of social robots in care
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Should we deploy social robots in care settings? This question, asked from a policy standpoint, requires that we understand the potential benefits and downsides of deploying social robots in care situations. Potential ... -
Freedom under the gaze of Big Brother: Preparing the grounds for a liberal defence of privacy in the era of Big Data
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-08)‘Big Brother is watching you!’ the posters in Orwell's Oceania told all its inhabitants. We have no such posters, but we live in the era of Big Data, and someone is watching us. Here, I discuss how Big Data is an omniscient ... -
Generative AI: Here to stay, but for good?
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Generative AI has taken the world by storm, kicked off for real by ChatGPT and quickly followed by further development and the release of GPT-4 and similar models from OpenAI’s competitors. The street has most certainly ... -
Healthcare Digitalisation and the Changing Nature of Work and Society
Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Digital technologies have profound effects on all areas of modern life, including the workplace. Certain forms of digitalisation entail simply exchanging digital files for paper, while more complex instances involve machines ... -
A Hobbesian Argument for World Government
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The legitimacy of government is often linked to its ability to maintain order and secure peace. Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy provides a clear description of why government is necessary, as human nature and the ... -
The limits of a Lockean Environmentalism: God, Human Beings, and Nature in Locke's philosophy
Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-22)God gave us the Earth, to use and enjoy. So says the Bible, and so says John Locke (1632-1704). The individualism and liberalism in Locke’s philosophy makes it decidedly modern and appealing to us today. However, he often ... -
Locke on Prerogative: Democracy, Libertarianism, and Proto-Utilitarianism
Schönegger, Philipp; Sætra, Henrik Skaug (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)John Locke’s role in the advent of modernity has been debated widely. His work has been (ab)used by those arguing from libertarian, democratic, communitarian, socialist, feminist, or postcolonial points of view, either ...