Publications
ND TEC faculty affiliates publish in a diverse range of both disciplines and outlets. This section of our site houses some of their most recent sole- and coauthored work in tech ethics. The library is searchable, and we add to it regularly, so be sure to check back often for updates.
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Review
Review of “Algorithmic bias: on the implicit biases of social technology”
By: Kirsten Martin, Warren von Eschenbach
ND TEC’s Martin and von Eschenbach write that this article by Gabbrielle Johnson “makes a rigorous, compelling, and clear argument against the fabled ‘objectivity’ of computer science.”
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Commentary
Collaborative Climate Futures? Envisioning the Role of Open Data Infrastructures for Collaborative Socio-Environmental Research
By: Shannon Dosemagen, Luis Felipe Murillo
Appeared In: Commonplace
Arguing that effective data stewardship requires community and sovereignty, especially when the data is about the environment, Murillo and Dosemagen explore how we use can digital infrastructure with sustainability in mind.
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Article
Does Information About AI Regulation Change Manager Evaluation of Ethical Concerns and Intent to Adopt AI?
By: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Benjamin Cedric Larsen, Yong Suk Lee, Michael Webb
Appeared In: The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
The authors examine the impacts of potential artificial intelligence regulations on managers’ perceptions on ethical issues related to AI and their intentions to adopt AI technologies.
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Article
Analysis of Moral Judgment on Reddit
By: Nicholas Botzer, Shawn Gu, Tim Weninger
Appeared In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
Moral outrage has become synonymous with social media in recent years. However, the preponderance of academic analysis on social media websites has focused on hate speech and misinformation. This article aims to help address that gap.
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Article
AI and Corporate Responsibility: How and Why Firms Are Responsible for AI
By: Kirsten Martin, Carolina Villegas-Galaviz
Appeared In: Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics
This entry from the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics explains how we think about corporate responsibility around the design, development, and use of AI.
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Commentary
Crypto’s “Freedom to Transact” May Actually Threaten Human Rights
By: Elizabeth Renieris
Appeared In: CIGI Online
In this commentary, Renieris challenges the notion of “the freedom to transact” routinely associated with cryptocurrency, noting that this freedom is too often “touted or treated as absolute.”
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Article
AI Ethics, Regulation & Firm Implications
By: Benjamin Cedric Larsen, Yong Suk Lee
Appeared In: CPI TECHReg Chronicle
This article outlines distinct approaches to AI governance and regulation and discusses the implications for firms and their managers in terms of adopting AI and ethical practices going forward.
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Article
Are Algorithmic Decisions Legitimate? The Effect of Process and Outcomes on Perceptions of Legitimacy of AI Decisions
By: Kirsten Martin, Ari Waldman
Appeared In: Journal of Business Ethics
To date, the algorithmic accountability literature has elided a fundamentally empirical question important to business ethics and management: Under what circumstances, if any, are algorithmic decision-making systems considered legitimate?
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Book
Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War
By: Robert Latiff
Future Peace urges extreme caution in the adoption of new weapons technology and is an impassioned plea for peace from an individual who spent decades preparing for war.
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Article
RFI Response: Biometric Technologies
By: Yong Suk Lee, Elizabeth Renieris
Renieris and Lee responded to a request for information (RFI) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy concerning the “Public and Private Sector Uses of Biometric Technologies.”
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Commentary
Amid the Hype over Web3, Informed Skepticism Is Critical
By: Elizabeth Renieris
Appeared In: CIGI Online
Writing in the Center for International Governance (CIGI) Online, Renieris points to “a kind of imaginative obsolescence” in the discourse around Web3.
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Article
Can Lethal Autonomous Weapons Be Just?
By: Noreen Herzfeld, Robert Latiff
Appeared In: Peace Review
This article attempts to put artificial intelligence and autonomy in weapons in the perspective of moral decision-making and points out the limitations of such technologies in that regard.
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Article
Algorithmic Bias and Corporate Responsibility: How companies hide behind the false veil of the technological imperative
By: Kirsten Martin
Appeared In: Ethics of Data and Analytics
In this book chapter, Martin argues that acknowledging the value-laden biases of algorithms as inscribed in design allows us to identify the associated responsibility of corporations that design, develop, and deploy algorithms.
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Book
Science, Technology, and Virtues: Contemporary Perspectives
By: Emanuele Ratti, Thomas Stapleford
This co-edited volume illustrates how a range of scholars have found concepts of virtue valuable for thinking about contemporary science and technology, including technology ethics.
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Commentary
AI and the Future of Labor
By: Yong Suk Lee
Appeared In: Dignity and Development
Writing for the Dignity and Development blog published by Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, Lee discusses the challenges workers may face with the rapid adoption of AI in the near future.
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Article
Designing Ethical Technology Requires Systems for Anticipation and Resilience
By: Kirsten Martin, Bidhan (Bobby) Parmar
Appeared In: MIT Sloan Management Review
The increased speed and scale of emerging technologies can make ethical lapses more likely, more costly, and harder to recover from. To reduce ethical lapses, organizations need two kinds of systems: systems for anticipation and systems for resilience.
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Article
Transparency and the Black Box Problem: Why We Do Not Trust AI
By: Warren von Eschenbach
Appeared In: Philosophy & Technology
How can we trust an unsupervised intelligent system to analyze data or even make decisions on our behalf when its decision-making process remains opaque or unintelligible to us?
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Article
The Golden Thread for Humanity
By: Warren von Eschenbach
Appeared In: Culture e Fede Journal
What is the relationship between faith and science and how do they inform an ethical approach to using technology?
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Article
Whence and W(h)ither Technology Ethics
By: Don Howard
Appeared In: Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Technology
Howard surveys the history of technology ethics focusing on why the field developed with such a strong emphasis on risk and harmful social, cultural, and political impacts of new technologies.
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Article
Automatic Discovery of Meme Genres with Diverse Appearances
By: Joel Brogan, Daniel Moreira, Pascal Phoa, Walter Scheirer, William Theisen, Pamela Bilo Thomas, Tim Weninger
Appeared In: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
This paper introduces a scalable automated visual recognition pipeline for discovering meme genres of diverse appearance, work relevant to the study of political disinformation campaigns.
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Article
Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes
By: Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger, Michael Yankoski
Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
From QAnon conspiracy theories to Russian government-sponsored election interference, social media disinformation campaigns are a part of online life, and identifying these threats is a challenge.
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Article
Pitfalls in Machine Learning Research: Reexamining the Development Cycle
By: Stella Biderman, Walter Scheirer
Appeared In: NeurIPS Conference
Machine learning research has the potential to fuel further advances in data science, but it is greatly hindered by an ad hoc design process, poor data hygiene, and a lack of statistical rigor.
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Article
The “Criminality From Face” Illusion
By: Kevin Bowyer, Michael King, Walter Scheirer, Kushal Vangara
Appeared In: IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
A few recent publications have claimed success in analyzing an image of a person’s face in order to predict the person’s status as criminal/non-criminal. This is very dangerous.
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Article
A Pandemic of Bad Science
By: Walter Scheirer
Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
That there has been an extraordinary level of interest in coronavirus science during the COVID-19 pandemic should come as no surprise, but this has unintended consequences.
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Article
What Is It About Location?
By: Kirsten Martin, Helen Nissenbaum
Appeared In: Berkeley Technology Law Journal
This article reports on a set of empirical studies that reveal how people think about location data, how these conceptions relate to expectations of privacy, and what this might mean for law, regulation, and technological design.
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Article
An AI Early Warning System to Monitor Online Disinformation, Stop Violence, and Protect Elections
By: Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger, Michael Yankoski
Appeared In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The authors are developing an AI early warning system to monitor how manipulated content online—such as altered photos in memes—leads, in some cases, to violent conflict and societal instability.
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Article
Breaking the Privacy Paradox: The Value of Privacy and Associated Duty of Firms
By: Kirsten Martin
Appeared In: Business Ethics Quarterly
The privacy paradox is the perceived disconnect between individuals’ stated privacy expectations and consumer market behavior in going online. This paper empirically examines the conceptualization of privacy post-disclosure assumed in the privacy paradox.