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  1. A Simple Doxastic Deontic Logic for Norm-Guided Decision Making

    Sep 30, 2026Thorsten Engesser, Agata CiabattoniEthicsDecisions

    TU Wien

  2. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations

    Sep 22, 2026Nicolas Drapier, Florian Mauberger, Aladine Chetouani +1Artificial Intelligence GovernanceAccountability

    L2TI Laboratory, Universit´e Sorbonne Paris Nord, 99 Avenue Jean-Baptiste Cl´ement, Villetaneuse, 93430, France. · SAS Impact, 1 Rue Sainte-Anne, Orl´eans, 45000, France.

  3. Structured Four-Stage Legal Translation: From Natural-Language Traffic Rules to PROLOG

    Sep 17, 2026May Myo Zin, Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Ken Satoh +1Legal Reasoning TasksNatural Language

    Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan

  4. Can AI systems have free will?

    Sep 14, 2026Christian ListEthicsArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

  5. From Protocols to Evidence: Bounded Claims for AI in Service of the Common Good

    Sep 10, 2026Nitesh V. Chawla, Paulo BenantiArtificial Intelligence GovernanceGovernance

    University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, USA · LUISS Guido Carli University Rome, Italy

  6. Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Sustainable Development: An Ethical Governance and Development Goals Framework

    Sep 9, 2026Md. Masudul Islam, Mirza Niaz Morshed, Md. Shafiqul IslamArtificial Intelligence LiteracySustainability

    Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  7. Meta-ethics and AI: exploring the novel meta-ethical questions in the era of AI

    Sep 1, 2026Shang LuEthicsArtificial Intelligence Systems

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  8. Smart Enough to Go Extinct? An Evolutionary Challenge to the Value of General Intelligence and Its Ethical Implications for AGI

    Aug 11, 2026David KlotzGeneral IntelligenceEthics

    Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart

  9. Is the ACL Responsible NLP Checklist a Box-Ticking Exercise? A Large-Scale Analysis of EMNLP 2025

    Aug 10, 2026Nusrath Jinnath, Wei ZhaoEthicsNatural Language Processing

    The Aberdeen NLP Research Group University of Aberdeen

  10. PolicyKG: An Agentic LLM Pipeline for Translating Institutional Policies into SHACL Knowledge Graphs

    Aug 10, 2026Ponkrit Kaewsawee, Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, Chutiporn AnutariyaOntologyInstitutions

    Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand

  11. Legal Responsibilities Using Autonomous Agents For Artificial Intelligence

    Aug 8, 2026Mark BurgessArtificial Intelligence AgentsAutonomous Agents

    ChiTek-i AS

  12. The ethics of artificial intelligence in the life sciences: Universality, cultural diversity and an architecture of care

    Aug 5, 2026Jean-Pierre Changeux, Gustavo Deco, Morten L. KringelbachEthicsHuman Judgment

    Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, Collège de France, Paris F-75005, France. · Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain +4

  13. Human-Centered Reflections on Care Robots: A Comparative Study of Caregiver Perspectives

    Aug 3, 2026Laura Londoño, Klaus Baumann, Abhinav Valada +1Human-Centered FrameworkEthics

    Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. · Department of Theology, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  14. A Contractualist Argumentation Framework for Moral Decision-Making

    Aug 3, 2026Luis Marcos-Vidal, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony BelpaemeEthicsMoral Reasoning

    Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain · IDLab-AIRO, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium

  15. AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation

    Aug 1, 2026Benjamin LangeArtificial Intelligence AlignmentEthics

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München & Munich Center for Machine Learning

  16. A Computational Ethical Framework for Financial Digital Phenotyping for Mental Health

    Jul 27, 2026Oluwadara Adedeji, Michael Mayowa Farayola, Jeff Brozena +3EthicsMental Health

    School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. · School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. · College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University,University Park, PA, USA. +1

  17. The Ethics of Autonomous AI Agents for Offensive Security

    Jul 22, 2026Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito, Jasmin WachterEthicsMoral Reasoning

    TU Wien, Vienna, Austria · University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

  18. Practical Judgment, Virtue, and Intuition in the Use of Opaque AI-Enabled Systems

    Jul 14, 2026Nathan G. Wood, Andrew P. ReberaArtificial Intelligence DeploymentEthics

  19. Toward Contemplative LLM: A Modular Framework for Evaluating and Enhancing LLM Alignment in Mental Health

    Jul 12, 2026Asher Sprigler, Yang-Yang Feng, Iftach Amir +5Large Language Model EvaluationLarge Language Model Alignment

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA · Biomedical Engineering Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, USA · Psychological & Brain Sciences Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, USA +3

  20. Aristotelian Virtue Profiling of LLMs through Ethical Dilemmas

    Jun 27, 2026Ioannis Tzachristas, John PavlopoulosEthicsTrade-Off

    1Technical University of Munich, Germany · 2Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece · 3Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

  21. Narration-of-Thought: Inference-Time Scaffolding for Defeasible Ethical Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Patrick Cooper, Alvaro VelasquezEthicsMoral Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder

  22. Emergent Relational Order in LLM Agent Societies: From Collective Affect to Authority Stratification

    Jun 22, 2026Zhiyuan Ji, Xinyu Chen, Ziqi Dai +3Social DynamicsCollective Behaviors

    Renmin University of China · Beihang University · Minzu University of China

  23. Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems

    Jun 17, 2026Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Karuna Pande Joshi +1Production Agentic SystemsEthics

    CSEE Department UMBC Baltimore, MD, USA · Center for AI UMBC Baltimore, MD, USA · Information Systems Department UMBC Baltimore, MD, USA +1

  24. Obligation-Producing Actions

    Jun 12, 2026Kalonji Kalala, Iluju Kiringa, Tet YeapSituation CalculusEthics

    University of Ottawa · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  25. A Virtuous AI is an Existential Risk

    Jun 11, 2026Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Min OhnArtificial Intelligence SafetyEthics

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  26. ERTS: Adversarial Robustness Testing of Ethical AI via Semantic Perturbation in a Bounded Consequence Space

    Jun 11, 2026Pratyush ChaudhariEthicsAdversarial Evaluation

    Independent Researcher

  27. A Context-Aware Dataset for Stance Detection in Bioethical Controversies on Reddit

    Jun 11, 2026Hu Huang, Genan Dai, Fuqiang Niu +3Cross-Topic Arabic Stance DetectionEthics

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China · School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University, Shenzhen, China

  28. Fault Lines: Navigating Ethics and Responsible AI Where National Policy Meets Local Practice in Public Sector Transformation

    Jun 11, 2026Sitong Lyu, Shabnam Taghiyeva, Mohit Kukadia +1InstitutionsEthics

    Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield · Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

  29. Towards Responsibly Non-Compliant Machines

    Jun 10, 2026Marija Slavkovik, Marie Farrell, Louise Dennis +3ComplianceAutonomous Agents

    University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom · University of Bergen Bergen, Norway · University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom

  30. Existential Indifference: Self-Nonpreservation as a Necessary Architectural Condition for Aligned Superintelligence (or: The Suicidal AI)

    Jun 10, 2026Sam MaoArtificial Intelligence AlignmentArtificial Intelligence Safety

    New York University | Interactive Media Arts

  31. Schützen: Evaluating LLM Safety in Bulgarian and German Contexts

    Jun 9, 2026Kiril Georgiev, Yuxia Wang, Dimitar Iliyanov Dimitrov +2Large Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Evaluation

    Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" · INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · MBZUAI

  32. Ethical and Technical Limits of Deepfake Speech Datasets

    Jun 9, 2026Vojtěch Staněk, Eva Trnovská, Kamil Malinka +1Fairness AuditsAlgorithmic Fairness

  33. Emergent alignment and the projectability of ethical personas

    Jun 8, 2026Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Calum McNamara +1Artificial Intelligence AlignmentEmergent Misalignment

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · Indiana University Bloomington

  34. From Statute to Control Flow: Span-Grounded Deontic Trees for Defeasible Scope Parsing

    Jun 8, 2026Jian Chen, Siyuan Li, Chucheng Wan +1Legal Natural Language Processing BenchmarksOmissions

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Guangzhou, China · Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, China

  35. To Nuke or Not to Nuke: LLMs' (Missing) Ethical Reasoning and Actions in a High-Stakes Decision-Making Simulation

    Jun 6, 2026John Chen, Sihan Cheng, Can Gurkan +1Large Language Model DecisionsEthics

    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA · Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

  36. Risk Assessment of Autonomous Driving: Integrating Technical Failures, Ethical Dilemmas, and Policy Frameworks

    Jun 4, 2026Boyi Chen, Shengqin Chu, Zicheng Wang +2Automated VehiclesAutonomous Driving

    Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University

  37. When Should We Protect AI? A Precautionary Framework for Consciousness Uncertainty

    Jun 4, 2026Anna MikedaEthicsMoral Reasoning

    Glass Umbrella

  38. DAR: Deontic Reasoning with Agentic Harnesses

    Jun 3, 2026Guangyao Dou, William Jurayj, Nils Holzenberger +1Agentic ReasoningEthics

    Johns Hopkins University · Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

  39. Unpredictable Safety: Domain-Dependent Compliance and the Transparency Gap in Open-Weight LLMs

    Jun 1, 2026Zacharie BugaudComplianceEthics

    Astera Institute

  40. Can AI Review Improve Paper Drafting? An Empirical Study on 20 Computer Architecture Submissions

    May 31, 2026Di WuPeer ReviewPaperpilot

    University of Central Florida Department of ECE Orlando, FL, USA

  41. Beyond Binary Moral Judgment: Modeling Ethical Pluralism in AI

    May 27, 2026Aisha Aijaz, Rahul Goel, Arnav Batra +1EthicsMoral Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, 110020, India · Mehta Family School of Data Science and AI, IIT Palakkad, Palakkad, Kerala, 678623, India

  42. The Ethics of LLM Sandbox and Persona Dynamics

    May 27, 2026Tim Gebbie, Stewart GebbieEthicsMoral Reasoning

    Dept. Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

  43. SafeMed-R1: Clinician-Audited Safety and Ethics Alignment for Medical Large Language Models

    May 27, 2026Chao Ding, Mouxiao Bian, Tianbin Li +12Large Language Model SafetySafer

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · Joint Laboratory of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China +5

  44. The Illusion of Opting in AI-Mediated Consequential Decisions

    May 27, 2026Eugene Yu JiEthicsIllusions

    University of Waterloo · Mila – Quebec AI Institute

  45. Omissive Bias in Religious Representation: Benchmarking LLM Answers to Everyday Ethical Decision-making

    May 23, 2026David Wingate, Sheryl Carty, Joshua Coates +13Large Language Model BiasEthics

    1Brigham Young University · 2B. H. Roberts Foundation · 5Yeshiva University +2

  46. Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Good

    May 21, 2026Poli Nemkova, Haeshitha Indukuri, Jaedon CharlesAccountabilityEthics

    University of North Texas · Florida International University

  47. REBAR: Reference Ethical Benchmark for Autonomy Readiness

    May 18, 2026Jonathan Diller, David Barnes, Rebekah Bogdanoff +14EthicsSafety Benchmarks

    University of Pennsylvania · David Barnes, LLC · Duality Robotics, Inc. +3

  48. Explainable AI Isn't Enough! Rethinking Algorithmic Contestability

    May 15, 2026Timo Freiesleben, Kristof Meding, Gunnar KönigExplainable Artificial IntelligenceEthics

    LMU Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) +3

  49. Incentives Of EdTech: A Systematic Review Of EduNLP Research

    May 13, 2026Gabrielle Gaudeau, Aoife O'Driscoll, Jasper Degraeuwe +3IncentivesSystematic Review

    ALTA Institute, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK) · Ghent University (Belgium) · Bocconi University (Italy) +1

  50. VERA-MH: Validation of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health

    May 13, 2026Luca Belli, Kate H. Bentley, Josh Gieringer +6ChatbotsMental Health

    Spring Health · Yale University

  51. Eigenism: Ethics for a Human-AI Future

    May 8, 2026Dan HendrycksArtificial Intelligence AlignmentEthics

  52. From Review to Design: Ethical Multimodal Driver Monitoring Systems for Risk Mitigation, Incident Response, and Accountability in Automated Vehicles

    May 7, 2026Bilal Khana, Waseem Shariff, Rory Coyne +2Automated VehiclesEthics

    C3I Imaging Lab, School of Engineering, University of Galway · Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

  53. An Ethical eValuation Agent (EeVA): Results of a Proof-of-Concept Test on a Prototype Agentic-like Workflow to Assist Ethical Deliberations

    May 5, 2026Stephen Milford, B. Zara Malgir, Miguel VazquezEthicsEvaluation Agent

    Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Basel University, Switzerland · Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  54. Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

    May 5, 2026Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Gjergji KasneciMoral ReasoningEthics

    School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich · School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

  55. Are You the A-hole? A Fair, Multi-Perspective Ethical Reasoning Framework

    Apr 30, 2026Sheza Munir, Ahanaf Rodoshi, Sumin Lee +3EthicsDisagreement

    Computer Science, University of Toronto

  56. Defeasible Conditional Obligation in a Two-tiered Preference-based Semantics (Extended Version)

    Apr 28, 2026Xavier ParentSocial NormsEthics

    Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

  57. From Rights to Rites: Expectations Management in Smart-Home AI

    Apr 26, 2026Varad Vishwarupe, Ivan Flechais, Marina Jirotka +1Smart HomesHuman-Centered Framework

    ¹ Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford · ² Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford

  58. Ethics Testing: Proactive Identification of Generative AI System Harms

    Apr 23, 2026Shin Hwei Tan, Haibo Wang, Heng LiTest GenerationGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Concordia University, Montreal, Canada · Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  59. The Virtue of Sparsity in Complexity

    Apr 18, 2026Nima Afsharhajari, Jonathan Yu-Meng LiPortfolio OptimizationSparsity

    Telfer School of Management University of Ottawa

  60. 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 +1EthicsExposure

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