Publications

Why the Gaming Industry Needs RAI | ACM Games: Research and Practice, 2024

“Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into the development, operation, and servicing of video games adds new issues to an already-complex landscape of ethical concerns. Practices, tools, and governance structures developed in responsible AI can offer effective ways to navigate this complexity.”

AI Ethics and Governance in Defence Innovation: Implementing an AI Ethics Framework | The AI Wave in Defence Innovation (Routledge), 2023

“This chapter begins with an overview of the AI ethics landscape within a military context, showing the ethical dual nature of AI tools. It then defines AI ethics and situates it in relation to law and the military. Subsequently, the chapter lays out an AI ethics and governance framework called the PiE Model applied to the military context, detailing its core organisational components: AI ethics playbook, process, and people. And finally, the chapter concludes by presenting some further considerations, such as accountability and the role of regulations.”

Did You Find It on the Internet? Ethical Complexities of Search Engine Rankings | Perspectives on Digital Humanism (Springer), 2021

“Search engines play a crucial role in our access to information. Their search ranking can amplify certain information while making others virtually invisible. Ethical issues arise regarding the criteria that the ranking is based on, the structure of the resulting ranking, and its implications. Critics often put forth a collection of commonly held values and principles, arguing that these provide the needed guidance for ethical search engines. However, these values and principles are often in tension with one another and lead us to incompatible criteria and results, as I show in this short piece.”

Operationalizing AI Ethics Principles | Communications of the ACM, 2020

“Only by operationalizing AI principles for ethical practice can we help computer scientists, developers, and designers to spot and think through ethical issues and recognize when a complex ethical issue requires in-depth expert analysis. These operationalized AI principles for ethical practice will also help organizations confront unavoidable value trade-offs and consciously set their priorities.”

Human Rights & AI Ethics – Why Ethics Cannot be Replaced by the UDHR | United Nations University, Centre for Policy Research, 2019

“In the increasingly popular quest of trying to make the technology world ethical, a new idea has emerged: just replace “ethics” with “human rights”. Unfortunately, like many shortcuts, this one also simply does not solve the problem.”