Responsible AI

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Responsible AI examines how AI systems affect people and society, and how to prevent or address harms while preserving useful applications. Approaches include testing for bias, robustness, privacy, and explainability; documenting data and models; conducting impact assessments; and designing for human oversight and community participation. The field also studies laws, organizational practices, incident reporting, and environmental costs across the AI lifecycle, from development through deployment. A central challenge is turning broad ethical principles into effective, context-sensitive practices and enforceable accountability while balancing competing goals such as accuracy, fairness, autonomy, and efficiency.

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  1. Frictionless Love: Associations Between AI Companion Roles and Behavioral Addiction

    Apr 21, 2026Vibhor Agarwal, Ke Zhou, Edyta Paulina Bogucka +1AI CompanionsHuman-AI Interaction

    Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom · Nokia Bell Labs , Cambridge, United Kingdom · University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom +1

  2. Relational AI in Education: Reciprocity, Participatory Design, and Indigenous Worldviews

    Apr 21, 2026Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Vanessa Echeverria, Jenna Hawes +5AI in EducationGenerative AI in Education

    Monash University, Australia · RMIT, Australia · Ninti One, Australia +1

  3. The implicated scientist: on the role of AI researchers in the development of weapons systems

    Apr 20, 2026Alexandra Volokhova, Alex Hernandez-GarciaAI AccountabilityResponsible AI

    Universit´e de Montr´eal, Mila – Quebec AI Institute Montreal, QC, Canada

  4. From Vulnerable Data Subjects to Vulnerabilizing Data Practices: Navigating the Protection Paradox in AI-Based Analyses of Platformized Lives

    Apr 17, 2026Delfina S. Martinez Pandiani, Ella Streefkerk, Laurens Naudts +1Responsible AI

    University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany · KU Leuven, Belgium

  5. Model Capability Assessment and Safeguards for Biological Weaponization

    Apr 15, 2026Michael RichterResponsible AILLM Safety Evaluation

    Binghamton University

  6. Environmental Footprint of GenAI Research: Insights from the Moshi Foundation Model

    Apr 13, 2026Marta López-Rauhut, Loic Landrieu, Mathieu Aubry +1Life Cycle AssessmentResponsible AI

    LIGM, CNRS, Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENPC, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France · Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France

  7. Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States

    Apr 11, 2026Tyra Girdwood, Saba Kheirinejad, Parnian Kheirkhah Rahimabad +4HealthcareHuman-Centered AI

    University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Nursing, Memphis · University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pediatrics, Memphis · University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memphis, USA

  8. Post-Deployment Accountability in AI Governance: A Cross-Regulatory Empirical Analysis of AI Incidents

    Apr 10, 2026Ummara Mumtaz, Rabi Noor, Summaya MumtazAI AccountabilityAI Governance

  9. Playing Games with My Heart: An Evaluation of AI Companion Apps

    Apr 8, 2026Maribeth Rauh, Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Matias Duran +6AI CompanionsHuman-AI Interaction

    AI Accountability Lab, School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS), Trinity College Dublin · Complex Software Lab, SCSS, Trinity College Dublin · Sapienza Università di Roma, DIAG +1

  10. Governance and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Nigeria

    Apr 7, 2026Uloma Okoro, Tammy Mackenzie, Branislav RadeljicAI GovernanceResponsible AI

    Aula Fellowship for AI, Montreal, Canada

  11. Toward a Sustainable Software Architecture Community: Evaluating ICSA's Environmental Impact

    Apr 5, 2026Mahyar T. Moghaddam, Mina Alipour, Torben Worm +1Responsible AISoftware Engineering

    SDU Software Engineering Odense, Denmark

  12. The Planetary Cost of AI Acceleration, Part II: The 10th Planetary Boundary and the 6.5-Year Countdown

    Apr 3, 2026William Yicheng Zhu, Lei ZhuResponsible AI

  13. Rethinking AI Literacy Education in Higher Education: Bridging Risk Perception and Responsible Adoption

    Mar 31, 2026Shasha Yu, Fiona Carroll, Barry L. BentleyAI LiteracyResponsible AI

    School of Professional Studies, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, 01610, MA, USA · Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff, CF5 2YB, Wales, UK · Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, 02115, MA, USA

  14. Where Does AI Leave a Footprint? Children's Reasoning About AI's Environmental Costs

    Mar 28, 2026Aayushi Dangol, Robert Wolfe, Nisha Devasia +3AI LiteracyResponsible AI

    University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA · Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA · University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  15. PRISMA: Toward a Normative Information Infrastructure for Responsible Pharmaceutical Knowledge Management

    Mar 27, 2026Eugenio Rodrigo Zimmer Neves, Amanda Vanon Correa, Camila Campioni +2Responsible AIKnowledge Representation

    Pharmdata, Porto Alegre, Brazil

  16. The AI Criminal Mastermind

    Mar 26, 2026Joshua KrookAI AccountabilityResponsible AI

    Era AI Fellow / University of Antwerp

  17. Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI

    Mar 26, 2026Johan Commelin, Mateja Jamnik, Rodrigo Ochigame +2Mathematics EducationResponsible AI

    Department of Mathematics at Utrecht University · University of Cambridge · Leiden University +2

  18. When AI output tips to bad but nobody notices: Legal implications of AI's mistakes

    Mar 25, 2026Dylan J. Restrepo, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Frank Y. Huo +1Hallucination in Language ModelsResponsible AI

    Cornell Tech, Cornell University, New York, NY 10044, USA · d-AI-ta Consulting, Delaware 19958, USA · Dynamic Online Networks Laboratory, George Washington University Washington, DC 20052, USA

  19. The Imbalanced User-AI Relationships as an Ethical Failure of Front-End Design in Healthcare AI

    Mar 24, 2026Maureen Mghambi MwadimeHuman-AI InteractionResponsible AI

    School of Computer Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle - United Kingdom

  20. The EU AI Act and the Rights-based Approach to Technological Governance

    Mar 24, 2026Georgios PavlidisAI GovernanceResponsible AI

    Associate Professor of International and EU Law, Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence AI-2-TRACE-CRIME, Neapolis University Pafos (NUP), School of Law

  21. Do Consumers Accept AIs as Moral Compliance Agents?

    Mar 23, 2026Greg Nyilasy, Abraham Ryan Ade Putra Hito, Jennifer Overbeck +2Trust in AIResponsible AI

    Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, 198 Berkeley St, University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia · Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, 200 Leicester St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia · School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia +1

  22. Transparent Screening for LLM Inference and Training Impacts

    Mar 23, 2026Arnault Pachot, Thierry PetitLLM AuditingResponsible AI

    Emotia, Paris, France

  23. Is the future of AI green? What can innovation diffusion models say about generative AI's environmental impact?

    Mar 22, 2026Robert Viseur, Nicolas JullienResponsible AI

    Université de Mons · IMT Atlantique, LEGO-Marsouin

  24. AEGIS: An Operational Infrastructure for Post-Market Governance of Adaptive Medical AI Under US and EU Regulations

    Mar 20, 2026Fardin Afdideh, Mehdi Astaraki, Fernando Seoane +1AI GovernanceResponsible AI

    Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Stockholm University, Solna, Sweden · Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden +4

  25. Student views in AI Ethics and Social Impact

    Mar 19, 2026Tudor-Dan Mihoc, Manuela-Andreea Petrescu, Emilia-Loredana PopResponsible AIComputer Science Education

    Department of Computer Science, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  26. An Onto-Relational-Sophic Framework for Governing Synthetic Minds

    Mar 19, 2026Huansheng Ning, Jianguo DingAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

    School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China · Department of Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 37179 Karlskrona, Sweden

  27. On the Carbon Footprint of Economic Research in the Age of Generative AI

    Mar 17, 2026Andres Alonso-Robisco, Carlos Esparcia, Francisco JareñoAI-Assisted Scientific ResearchResponsible AI

    Banco de Espa˜na · Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

  28. Bridging the Gap in the Responsible AI Divides

    Mar 15, 2026Bálint Gyevnár, Atoosa KasirzadehAI EthicsResponsible AI

    Institute for Complex Social Dynamics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA · Departments of Philosophy & Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  29. To LLM, or Not to LLM: How Designers and Developers Navigate LLMs as Tools or Teammates

    Mar 15, 2026Varad Vishwarupe, Ivan Flechais, Nigel Shadbolt +1LLM Tool UseHuman-AI Collaboration

    Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  30. The Institutional Scaling Law: Non-Monotonic Fitness, Capability-Trust Divergence, and Symbiogenetic Scaling in Generative AI

    Mar 14, 2026Mark Baciak, Thomas A. CellucciTrustworthy AILanguage Model Scaling Laws

    Ekta Inc.