[Air-L] CfP: Coded Ethics in Journal of Responsible Technology

[Shanley, Dani (PHILOSOPHY)]

Call for papers
Coded Ethics: Decision-Making and the Responsible Development of Automated Digital Technologies
Journal of Responsible Technology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-responsible-technology/about/call-for-papers#coded-ethics-decision-making-and-the-responsible-development-of-automated-digital-technologies-1

In order to understand what responsible innovation in AI looks like in practice, we need to build repositories of first-hand accounts of people working in the field. These accounts can serve both to inform and inspire others in the field as well as contribute to a more empirically grounded notion of responsibility, acknowledging the importance of political, institutional, and normative ties in different contexts.

The purpose of this special issue is to foster transdisciplinary dialogues about responsible innovation in automated digital technologies. Unlike other literature in this space, however, our focus will not be on algorithmic decision-making. Instead, we want to draw attention to human decision-making in AI development and/or use. We are giving preference to contributions authored by transdisciplinary teams (for example, data scientists and sociologists as co-authors). However, we also welcome single-discipline submissions that address both technical and ethical decision-making in the development and use of automated systems. In either case, it is important that contributors focus on human decision-making rather than algorithmic decision-making.

We invite authors to focus specifically on identifying and/or suggesting answers to fundamental questions about human decision-making during the responsible development and deployment of automated digital technology. We are particularly interested in why and how decisions that have significant ethical import are often interpreted as purely technical choices. This can be broadly understood as veiled ethical agency, or the un/conscious ethical decisions made during the development and deployment of digital technology that are invisible to its end users, and sometimes even to the developers themselves, because of the primacy given to the technical choices needed to make the system work. The outcome of these transdisciplinary dialogues will provide insight into fundamental ethical questions that transdisciplinary development teams are advised to take into consideration during the development and deployment of automated digital technologies.

Guest editors:

Dr. Danielle Shanley (Executive Guest Editor)
Department of Philosophy, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Email: danielle.shanley at maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:danielle.shanley at maastrichtuniversity.nl>

Ms. Tricia Griffin
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Email: t.griffin at maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:t.griffin at maastrichtuniversity.nl>

Manuscript submission information:

Tentative Deadlines:

  *   Submission Open Date: 30th July 2024
  *   Submission Deadline: 30th September 2024​
  *   Notification of Acceptance: 20th December 2024

Manuscripts must be submitted via the Journal of Responsible Technology online submission system (Editorial Manager®): https://www.editorialmanager.com/jrtech/default.aspx.  Please select the article type “VSI: Coded Ethics” when submitting your manuscript online.

Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-responsible-technology/publish/guide-for-authors.

For any further information, the authors may contact the Guest Editors.

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Responsible Innovation, Decision-making, Transdisciplinarity


Danielle Shanley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University