TY - JOUR
T1 - Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice
T2 - the role of peer-to-peer relationships
AU - Breuer, Svenja
AU - Witz, Sophia
AU - Skerlj, Jon
AU - Braun, Maximilian
AU - Bak, Marieke
AU - Naceri, Abdeldjallil
AU - Tigard, Daniel
AU - Haddadin, Sami
AU - Buyx, Alena
AU - Eisenberger, Iris
AU - Müller, Ruth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In response to the ethical and societal challenges of emerging technologies, there is a growing commitment to integrative socio-technical research. One such approach is embedded ethics and social science, which embeds the analysis of ethical, social, and legal aspects into the entire innovation process through direct collaboration between ethicists, social scientists, legal scholars, technical researchers, and experts in the field of application. We offer reflections on our experiences from the approach's pilot project, Responsible Robotics, where we were integrated into a research project on service robotics for senior care. Drawing on more than four years of embedded research, we present practices through which peer-to-peer relationships develop. These relationships challenge disciplinary identities and serve as grounds for mutual learning and capacity-building. Our insights contribute to the discourse on how science and technology studies (STS), ethics, and law can integrate with technological research to ensure ethically and socially responsible practices.
AB - In response to the ethical and societal challenges of emerging technologies, there is a growing commitment to integrative socio-technical research. One such approach is embedded ethics and social science, which embeds the analysis of ethical, social, and legal aspects into the entire innovation process through direct collaboration between ethicists, social scientists, legal scholars, technical researchers, and experts in the field of application. We offer reflections on our experiences from the approach's pilot project, Responsible Robotics, where we were integrated into a research project on service robotics for senior care. Drawing on more than four years of embedded research, we present practices through which peer-to-peer relationships develop. These relationships challenge disciplinary identities and serve as grounds for mutual learning and capacity-building. Our insights contribute to the discourse on how science and technology studies (STS), ethics, and law can integrate with technological research to ensure ethically and socially responsible practices.
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - collaboration
KW - embedded ethics and social science
KW - peer-to-peer relationships
KW - responsible robotics
KW - Socio-technical integration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85210478187&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/23299460.2024.2426854
DO - 10.1080/23299460.2024.2426854
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85210478187
SN - 2329-9460
VL - 11
JO - Journal of Responsible Innovation
JF - Journal of Responsible Innovation
IS - 1
M1 - 2426854
ER -