Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Good
Agentic AI systems are increasingly proposed for social-good domains, often invoking the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a vocabulary of global benefit. Yet claims of social good do not establish accountability to the communities a system claims to serve. We present a structured survey of 112 papers on agentic AI for social good published between 2015 and 2026. We find a moral-geographic asymmetry: papers are least likely to specify geographic context in precisely the doma
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Published: 21 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (21 May 2026), “Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Good,” evidence record 3905, https://ethics.ai/record/3905 (originally published by arXiv).
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