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We argue that di", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "bias-fairness,privacy-surveillance,transparency", "published_at": "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19243" }, { "id": 19244, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03216-1", "title": "Reflections on the Always-Answering Classroom: AI, Uncertainty, and Pedagogical Silence", "summary": null, "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19244" }, { "id": 19245, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03295-0", "title": "Artificial intelligence and academic integrity in nursing education: a thematic analysis of Filipino nurse educators’ perspectives", "summary": "As technology advances, artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into educational settings, raising important questions about its impact on learning and academic integrity. This study describes the perspectives of Filipino nurse educators on the role of artificial intelligence in maintaining academic integrity. A descriptive qualitative design was used, with a two-phase data collection process employing purposive sampling. 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The main corpus comprised 1050 completions collected under a baseline decoding condition ( tem", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18844" }, { "id": 18845, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03133-3", "title": "Navigating hope and risk of AI for digital citizenship: perceptions of benefits, risks, and governance from African perspectives", "summary": "As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in social, economic, and public-service contexts, understanding how citizens perceive its benefits and risks is important for responsible technology governance. This study examines perceptions of AI among 280 African participants in a 4-week AI bootcamp held in 2025. Using a mixed-methods design, the study analyzed closed-ended survey responses on perceived AI benefits, collaboration comfort, community impact areas, risk perceptions,", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18845" }, { "id": 18846, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03219-y", "title": "AI, material agency, and architecture’s crisis", "summary": "Architecture’s relationship with materiality faces an unprecedented crisis as artificial intelligence systems transform how materials are understood, selected, and specified. This paper examines the dissolution of embodied material knowledge through three interconnected developments: the historical abstraction of matter via industrial catalogues, the emergence of circular economy databases as attempted alternatives, and the recent shift toward AI-generated architecture that operates primarily th", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "jobs-economy", "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18846" }, { "id": 18847, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03267-4", "title": "Creative labour and generative AI: a typology of asymmetrical relations", "summary": "In this article, we argue that the benefits and harms of generative AI in the content and conditions of creative labour are not evenly distributed across the cultural industries and between cultural workers. In light of this, we propose a conceptual typology that allows for a more granular and nuanced analysis of the asymmetrical impact of GenAI in creative labour structured around three dimensions: contractual relations, forms of automation, and workflows. Regarding contractual relations, we di", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "jobs-economy", "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18847" }, { "id": 18848, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03272-7", "title": "Too human to trust? How warmth, competence, and anxiety shape employee avoidance of generative AI", "summary": "As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly embedded in organizational innovation and digital transformation strategies, understanding its implications for workforce adaptation has emerged as a critical managerial and strategic issue. This study examines how employees’ perceptions of GenAI, specifically perceived competence and perceived warmth, together with information overload, relate to AI anxiety and subsequent avoidance behavior in the workplace. 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By leveraging an ensemble-based AI classification protocol, the research constructs a validated set of 63 O*NET competencies to map occupational tasks into substitution and facilitation tracks. Central to this analysis is the exploration of how educational attainme", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18850" }, { "id": 18470, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03279-0", "title": "Unpacking the dynamics of generative AI use in our daily lives: towards an integrative trust calibration framework", "summary": "The growing use of conversational generative AI agents by an increasingly diverse set of individuals gives rise to the following question: How do individuals calibrate their trust in a dynamic, seemingly general-purpose technology that learns from and adapts to their behavior and may take an increasingly central role in their online interactions? In this article, we propose the first steps towards an integrative framework for trust calibration in genAI agents focusing on individuals using these", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18470" }, { "id": 18073, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03215-2", "title": "Artificial intelligence in Turkish society and ethical concerns", "summary": "This study aims to examine the ethical, legal, and societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in Türkiye through a structured and context-sensitive analytical approach. A structured narrative review was conducted using major databases, including Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar, covering publications between 2018 and 2025. The analysis integrates global AI governance frameworks with national policies and sectoral practices. To move beyond descriptive reporting, the s", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18073" }, { "id": 17700, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03237-w", "title": "Ethical AI use is contextual: focus group insights on students’ decision-making in academic work", "summary": "The expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has intensified the need for evidence-based policies that support meaningful adoption in academic settings. For AI guidelines to be effectively adopted, they must be grounded in users’ lived experiences and contextual realities, ensuring relevance to how AI is actually navigated in practice rather than imposed solely through top-down regulation. This study employed qualitative focus groups to examine how university students na", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation,children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17700" }, { "id": 17701, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03264-7", "title": "Strategies to improve treatment adherence of digital health applications—rapid review and mixed-method analysis", "summary": "Digital health applications (DHA) are digital medical devices that are used to support patients in the treatment of diseases. Therapy adherence is crucial for the success of therapy, but digital applications often result in high dropout rates. The work therefore pursues two central research questions: (1) quantification of DHA adherence and (2) identification of causes for dropout and development of improvement strategies. To answer these questions, a systematic literature analysis was carried o", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "healthcare", "published_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17701" }, { "id": 17702, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03224-1", "title": "Layered agency as a basis for allocating accountability for AI", "summary": "The increasing use of artificial intelligence-driven systems (AI) in organizations challenges the traditional concept of agency in organization theory as well as the traditional allocations of accountability. Recognizing that these issues are closely related, and drawing from several different conceptualizations of agency across disciplines, this paper develops a layered framework of agency in the context of AI. The framework distinguishes three analytically separable but interacting layers. The", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "transparency", "published_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17702" }, { "id": 17703, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03214-3", "title": "Fear frames: mapping AI anxiety in Persian social media discourse", "summary": "Public discourse about artificial intelligence is a critical site for examining how risk and affect are collectively organized through social media. This study investigates the thematic and affective configurations through which Persian-language users on X engage with AI-related concerns, contributing one of the first computational analyses of AI discourse in a Persian-language public sphere and, to our knowledge, the first to integrate LDA topic modeling, multi-label keyword operationalization,", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17703" }, { "id": 17704, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03252-x", "title": "Beyond optimization: structural redundancy and the governance of human potential in the age of AI", "summary": "Debates on artificial general intelligence (AGI) often frame progress as a quantitative race toward human-level performance through scaling and optimization. This essay argues that such debates overlook a deeper asymmetry in design orientation between biological and artificial systems. Drawing on biological theory and recent discussions in AI & Society on embodiment, artificial abstraction, and distributed agency, I isolate redundancy as a structural variable linking these debates. Biological in", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation,biotech", "published_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17704" }, { "id": 17489, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03220-5", "title": "A perspective from Nollywood: examining how GenAI is integrated in the Nigerian film industry", "summary": "This article examines the uptake of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the Nigerian film industry (Nollywood). It positions Nollywood as a key empirical and conceptual reference point for understanding how AI reshapes cultural production. Inspired by post-colonial and decolonial theory, it challenges the predominant focus in AI and cultural industries research on the Anglo-American world and Europe. Situating GenAI adoption within Nollywood’s institutional history and labour relations", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "jobs-economy", "published_at": "2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17489" }, { "id": 17490, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03228-x", "title": "Zones of (un)certainty: studying the temporal stabilization of ground truths for medical AI", "summary": "Medical data annotation is a critical yet contingent process that (re)configures ambiguous medical decisions and data representations into ground truths for artificial intelligence (AI). Extending critical data, AI, and STS research on uncertainty in data annotation, this article develops the concept of zones of (un)certainty to capture the epistemic time-spaces through which annotators transform uncertainty and dissonance into stabilized ground-truth data for medical AI. Drawing on interviews w", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "healthcare", "published_at": "2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17490" }, { "id": 17491, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03231-2", "title": "Correction: AI-generated child sexual abuse material: what’s the harm?", "summary": null, "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-07T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17491" }, { "id": 16344, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03244-x", "title": "The distributed Leviathan: AI, networked violence, and the fragmentation of responsibility", "summary": "AI-mediated environments increasingly reorganize violence, perception, and responsibility through networked digital relations in which action emerges without clearly localized actors. This paper examines how networked infrastructures and artificial intelligence transform the relationship between subjectivity, operational control, and accountability in contemporary societies. Rather than understanding digitally mediated violence as an isolated consequence of technological innovation, the paper ar", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "transparency,environment", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16344" }, { "id": 16345, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03127-1", "title": "Bridging risk and retention: risk coping with privacy and hallucination in AI", "summary": "This study examines how users engage with generative AI systems in the presence of perceived technological risks, focusing on the interplay between risk perception, adaptive behavior, and continued use. Drawing on a risk coping perspective, the study conceptualizes generative AI use as an ongoing process in which users evaluate potential informational and privacy-related threats and adjust their practices accordingly. the analysis explores how perceived risks shape user attitudes, coping strateg", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "privacy-surveillance", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16345" }, { "id": 16346, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03242-z", "title": "Negotiating epistemic authority in the age of generative AI: AI reliance, responsibility, and usage intensity among GenAI-using coaching professionals", "summary": "The emergence of generative AI (GenAI) within human-centered guidance professions marks a transformative shift in society that transcends mere improvements in technical efficiency. With large language models (LLMs) becoming increasingly embedded in professional practices centered on care, trust, and relational knowledge, critical questions arise about how algorithmic systems reshape human agency, autonomy, tacit expertise, and the ethical foundations of professional relationships. This study exa", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16346" }, { "id": 16347, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03262-9", "title": "Whose ethics? Whose AI? Refining the Philippine AI Regulation Act toward a Contextual AI Ethic", "summary": "The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the Philippines has prompted the drafting of the Artificial Intelligence Regulation Act (AIRA), which incorporates internationally recognized principles, such as transparency, accountability, fairness, and risk-based classification. While these principles echo the OECD, UNESCO, and EU AI frameworks, AIRA assumes that universalist ethical safeguards can be adapted unchanged into a context marked by deep socioeconomic inequality, pervasi", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation,transparency", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16347" }, { "id": 16348, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03173-9", "title": "AIDLC–governance indicator framework: a lifecycle-based approach to institutional AI governance", "summary": "Governments increasingly deploy algorithmic and AI-enabled systems in welfare administration, fraud detection, eligibility determination, and frontline service delivery. As these systems become embedded in routine public administration, agencies face rising expectations to sustain procedural fairness, accountability, and transparency throughout system development and long-term operation. Recent public-sector failures suggest that governance responsibilities are frequently fragmented across organ", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation,transparency", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16348" }, { "id": 16349, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03163-x", "title": "Gendered asymmetries in AI stories in English and Spanish", "summary": "Creative texts produced wholly or partly by large-scale generative language models are increasingly circulating within literary markets and cultural institutions. Research on AI-generated texts has largely examined bias at the level of words and images; however, small-scale statistical co-occurrences in AI-output can generate macro-scale narrative phenomena, where narrative functions intersect with stylistic texture, for example through voice, focalisation, reliability, or omission. This article", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "bias-fairness", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16349" }, { "id": 16350, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03240-1", "title": "Two religious chatbots walk into a bar: can religious identity prompts foster more pro-social LLM responses?", "summary": "There are growing concerns about the ability of large language models (LLMs) to make choices that reflect ethical behavior, particularly as these systems become more integrated into real-world decision-making. Motivated by the role of religion as a longstanding system of moral formation, we explore the potential for religious identity prompts (RIP) to lead LLMs to generate responses consistent with ethical behavior. We begin by reviewing the literature on the intersection between AI alignment, s", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "safety-alignment", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16350" }, { "id": 16351, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03248-7", "title": "Moral overload and ethical displacement in contemporary fiction of artificial intelligence", "summary": "The line of inquiry pursued in this study concerns how contemporary fiction of artificial intelligence exposes the ethical limits of posthuman relationality by distinguishing relational embeddedness from ethical relation. Through close readings of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun ( 2021 ), Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story ( 2019 ), and Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me ( 2019 ), the study aims to introduce the concept of “moral overload” to describe the asymmetrical delegation of e", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "jobs-economy", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16351" }, { "id": 16352, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03227-y", "title": "Epistemia in the classroom: the problem of evidence of understanding in education in the age of generative AI", "summary": "In 1973, a sixth-grade student named Benny produced correct mathematical answers consistently and was regarded as one of his teacher's best pupils. In-depth interviews revealed that he had developed syntactically functional rules entirely devoid of mathematical meaning. Half a century later, large language models generate fluent and coherent texts through statistical pattern completion, without grounding, experience, or metacognition, and are systematically attributed understanding that exceeds", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16352" }, { "id": 13640, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03178-4", "title": "Social representations of GenAI and paradoxical tensions in its adoption in higher education", "summary": "In just a few years, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI or GAI) has distinctly impacted numerous facets of human activity, particularly in how information is processed and transformed into knowledge. As centers for knowledge (co)creation and appropriation, universities face the opportunity and challenge of navigating a de facto integration of this promising yet disruptive technology. This study examines how instructors and students form their common-sense understanding of GenAI and endors", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13640" }, { "id": 13177, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03253-w", "title": "Sympoietic creativity and the boundaries of qing : digital romance writers negotiating generative AI", "summary": "This study investigates how writers of high-velocity Chinese digital romance fiction negotiate the arrival of generative AI at the desk. Drawing on a 4-year multi-sited digital ethnography (2021–2025) and interviews with 34 writers on Jinjiang Literature City alongside sustained forum observation and platform-discourse analysis, this article tracks how authors of serial romance work under the time discipline of the daily-update treadmill in the presence of large language models (LLMs). I argue t", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13177" }, { "id": 13178, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03256-7", "title": "When vulnerability becomes an asset: revisiting Beck’s risk society in the cyber age", "summary": null, "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "military-security", "published_at": "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13178" }, { "id": 13179, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03251-y", "title": "Capability determinism, energy and AI labour substitution", "summary": "Contemporary policy and media discourse on AI and labour follows a recurring pattern. A demonstration of model capability runs through an inference about workplace substitution to a distributional politics, with the variables that would decide the outcome treated as background. This paper names that pattern capability determinism situates it within Wyatt’s account of soft technological determinism, and reframes the substitution question as a unit-cost economics test. On the AI side, cost per tas", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy,environment", "published_at": "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13179" }, { "id": 11796, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03257-6", "title": "The shared blind spot: why diverse AI governance approaches fail for the same reason", "summary": "AI governance instruments are proliferating, and so are their difficulties. Across major jurisdictions and international bodies, reform efforts built on substantially different premises encounter a recognizably similar pattern of failure. I argue that anticipatory regulatory governance rests on three operational premises —categorical stability, epistemic accessibility, and manageable pace—and that AI’s emergence, opacity, and velocity violate all three in compound. These premises form a distinct", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-19T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11796" }, { "id": 11063, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03233-0", "title": "Correction: Synthetic chamber: agentic mediation in representative democracy", "summary": null, "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11063" }, { "id": 10684, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03182-8", "title": "Epistemic decolonisation and the integration of African traditional medicine: toward an epistemic redress model for inclusive AI in mental healthcare", "summary": "Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine learning (ML) systems, is increasingly used in mental healthcare to support diagnosis and treatment. These systems analyse large datasets—including speech patterns, social media activity, and biometric indicators—to detect conditions such as depression and anxiety. Although often framed as objective and clinically neutral, these technologies embed epistemic and cultural assumptions derived largely from Global North contexts. This paper advances ", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,healthcare", "published_at": "2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10684" }, { "id": 1995, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03204-5", "title": "Professional ethics and practical wisdom in AI-mediated professional environments", "summary": "The growing incorporation of artificial intelligence into professional environments has intensified debates about how ethical judgement is formed and sustained under technological mediation. This article examines these issues through the case of VICTOR, a machine learning system developed by Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal to classify extraordinary appeals according to constitutional themes of general repercussion, and through the later expansion of tools such as VitórIA. The analysis distingu", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "environment", "published_at": "2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1995" }, { "id": 1996, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03205-4", "title": "Revising research practices for singing data collection", "summary": "As AI voice synthesis enables increasingly sophisticated vocal deepfakes and non-consensual voice cloning, the governance, licensing and access of singing datasets has become an urgent concern for data-contributors, who face significant harms from downstream and non-consensual usage of their singing data. Singing datasets are foundational to the development of high fidelity voice AI synthesis, yet current data collection practices pose challenges: data-contributors have an event-centric contribu", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation,misinformation,copyright-ip", "published_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1996" }, { "id": 1998, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03206-3", "title": "Perceived and actual AI literacy in military organizations: a self-efficacy framework for training design", "summary": "This study examines the underlying causes of the gap between perceived artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and the actual competencies of defense personnel, and explores structured training initiatives that can support reliable and responsible decision-making in AI-mediated operational environments. Grounded in self-efficacy theory and the cognitive psychology of competence assessment, the study advances the theoretically motivated proposition that the routine use of intelligent systems may co", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "military-security,environment", "published_at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1998" }, { "id": 2000, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03207-2", "title": "Governing the algorithm: a conceptual review of strategic AI oversight in global corporations", "summary": "This article presents a conceptual and integrative review of how multinational corporations articulate and operationalise the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). Drawing on three major bodies of scholarship—strategic governance, stakeholder engagement, and technology risk governance—the review synthesises existing research alongside publicly disclosed governance frameworks, policies, and oversight structures from eight global firms. The review identifies persistent tensions between innov", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2000" }, { "id": 2002, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03142-2", "title": "The pursuit of cyberism: ontology, epistemology, and ethics in the digital age", "summary": "Cyberspace has emerged as a fourth fundamental domain of human existence, yet philosophy lacks an integrated framework for addressing the ontological, epistemological, and ethical transformations it produces. This paper develops such a framework through the concept of cyber, defined here as the existential condition in which human life becomes constitutively entangled with digital technologies such that the virtual and the real cease to function as separable categories. Distinguished from Wiener", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "safety-alignment,military-security", "published_at": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2002" }, { "id": 2003, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03145-z", "title": "The replacement-augmentation paradox: techno-perceptual dynamics of AI adoption in medical imaging and the future of work", "summary": "The implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology has garnered significant attention across both research and practice over the last decade. However, opinions on whether AI will augment or replace radiologists in their work have so far been divided, and the debate around this continues to linger. This article conceptually structures and terms this phenomenon as the “replacement-augmentation paradox” of AI in radiology—the persistent coexistence of replacement fears and augmentation", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "healthcare", "published_at": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2003" }, { "id": 2004, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03176-6", "title": "Generative AI in child sexual exploitation and abuse: views from UK law enforcement", "summary": "Amidst the general excitement about the opportunities afforded by artificial intelligence (AI), the tech industry must confront the uncomfortable reality that generative AI also facilitates child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). This issue remains under-addressed in the literature. Aiming to deepen the understanding of online CSEA and the misuse of generative AI, we report empirical insights from semi-structured interviews with seven UK law enforcement practitioners. The topics covered rang", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "regulation,children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2004" }, { "id": 2005, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03181-9", "title": "Harnessing artificial intelligence to preserve and advance indigenous knowledge system in Northeast India", "summary": "Northeast India is a cradle of cultural and ecological diversity, where Indigenous communities have cultivated rich traditional knowledge systems across generations—ranging from sustainable agroforestry, medicinal plant use, and sacred landscape management to complex oral histories and language traditions. However, these knowledge systems now face accelerating threats from environmental degradation, climate change, socio-economic shifts, and cultural erosion. This review explores how artificial ", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "environment", "published_at": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2005" }, { "id": 2006, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03179-3", "title": "Artificial Resonance: AI companions as agents of social acceleration", "summary": "AI companions are becoming increasingly popular, with millions of users worldwide, especially young adults. Some see the potential to fight the so-called loneliness epidemic; others see the destructive effects of addiction and harmful guidance leading users in extreme cases even to suicide. Recent research has examined AI companions through the lens of AI ethics, addressing questions of emotional dependency, controllability and emotional harm. While these contributions are valuable in assessing ", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "agents-autonomy", "published_at": "2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2006" }, { "id": 2007, "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03187-3", "title": "Negotiating creator identity: agency and ethical awareness in AI-assisted art education", "summary": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing creative work, negotiating not only how artists create but also how they understand their own identity as creators. This study examines how art high school students navigate AI’s role in their creative processes, using identity formation theory as a framework. While existing research primarily focuses on AI’s technical benefits, such as efficiency and productivity, there has been little exploration of how AI alters young creators’ self-concept and auto", "authors": null, "category": "research", "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education", "published_at": "2026-06-29T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "AI & Society", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2007" } ], "attribution": "via ethics.ai" }