Mihaela Constantinescu

Blaming artificial agents for difficult moral choices in medical contexts -- Study 2

Piotr Bystranowski, Emilian Mihailov, Mihaela Constantinescu, Jim AC Everett

In this follow-up experimental study, we explore how people perceive and judge difficult moral decisions made in a medical context, specifically contrasting decisions made by a human advisor with those made by an artificial intelligent (AI) advisor, and how the advisor type …

Responsibility Gaps, LLMs & Organisations: Many Agents, Many Levels, and Many Interactions

Mihaela Constantinescu, Muel Kaptein

In this article, we propose a business ethics-inspired approach to address the distribution dimension of responsibility gaps introduced by general-purpose AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs). We argue that the pervasive deployment of LLMs exacerbates the long-standing problem of “many hands” …

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Do GenAI avatars open new responsibility gaps?

Mihaela Constantinescu

In this article, I argue that semi-autonomous avatars relying on generative artificial intelligence to replicate or represent real human persons-GenAI avatars-open a new type of responsibility gaps, which I call "proxy gaps". Proxy gaps refer to situations when we cannot hold anyone …

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Physical and Digital GenAI Avatars: Do Interactive Representations of Individual Human Persons Have Agency and Moral Responsibility?

Mihaela Constantinescu, Radu Uszkai, Diana Mădălina Mocanu, George Bogateanu et autres

As either physical or digital interactive representations of human beings, avatars with generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI Avatars) raise significant philosophical challenges because they question our traditional frameworks in which we talk about agency and the attribution of moral responsibility. Can we ascribe …

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Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People-An International Ethical Consensus

Clint Hurshman, Cristina Voinea, William D'Allessandro, Mihaela Constantinescu et autres

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Organisational integrity and responsibility

Mihaela Constantinescu

Organisational integrity encompasses not only integrity in organisations, at the level of individual members, but also integrity of organisations, at the level of the collective social entity. But any robust inquiry over integrity at organisational level first requires a robust account over …

Robo-Education and the Pedagogical Divide

Mihaela Constantinescu, Radu Uszkai, Constantin Vică

On the background of recent concerns regarding online education in times of pandemic and a growing pedagogical divide in terms of unequal access to skilled teachers, we consider it timely to open a debate surrounding the use of social robots in education …

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Corporations as Moral Entities

Muel Kaptein, Mihaela Constantinescu

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Children-Robot Friendship, Moral Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Development

Mihaela Constantinescu, Radu Uszkai, Constantin Vică, Cristina Voinea

Social robots are increasingly developed for the companionship of children. In this article we explore the moral implications of children-robot friendships using the Aristotelian framework of virtue ethics. We adopt a moderate position and argue that, although robots cannot be virtue friends, …

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Can Robotic AI Systems Be Virtuous and Why Does This Matter?

Mihaela Constantinescu, Roger Crisp

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Blame It on the AI? On the Moral Responsibility of Artificial Moral Advisors

Mihaela Constantinescu, Constantin Vică, Radu Uszkai, Cristina Voinea

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Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context

Mihaela Constantinescu, Cristina Voinea, Radu Uszkai, Constantin Vică

Abstract During the last decade there has been burgeoning research concerning the ways in which we should think of and apply the concept of responsibility for Artificial Intelligence. Despite this conceptual richness, there is still a lack of consensus regarding what Responsible …

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