• 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 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...