• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...