Research ideas tagged “ethics”

Emotion AI in marketing, after the ban at work

Emotion recognition and affective computing appear on 325 recent papers, almost all in AI journals; only 19 carry a consumer, marketing or ethics keyword. The EU now bans emotion recognition at work and in schools, but not in shops or advertising. Does reading faces and voices tell marketers anything reliable, and should it be allowed?

Papers in the last 30 days — emotion recognition: 2 · affective computing: 2

Supply chain due diligence laws and the audits behind them

Child labour, forced labour, modern slavery and human rights due diligence appear on 41 recent papers, with 13 in the last quarter against about 9 per quarter before, and 12 of them carry a supply-chain or supplier keyword. Germany's supply chain law, the EU directive and import bans on forced-labour goods now require firms to check suppliers. Do the checks find anything, and do suppliers change?

Fairness audits of credit-scoring models

Fairness and algorithmic bias are growing in the AI journals, and credit scoring is one of the areas where AI rules are strictest. Yet only 19 of 473 recent fairness and bias papers carry a credit or lending keyword. What would an audit that lenders and regulators can both use look like, and what does fairness cost in default risk?

Papers in the last 30 days — algorithmic fairness: 2 · credit scoring: 2

Fairness constraints and what they cost

The equity-efficiency trade-off and fair division appear on 49 recent papers across the economics, operations research and AI journals. Routing, scheduling and allocation models increasingly add fairness constraints, for drivers, patients or regions. How much efficiency do the constraints cost in practice, and do the beneficiaries see them as fair?

Papers in the last 30 days — fair division: 2 · equity-efficiency trade-off: 2

Does delegating to AI make dishonesty easier?

Unethical behavior and moral disengagement are rising in the management journals, and AI tools now act on people's behalf. Recent experiments suggest people cheat more when a machine does the act for them. Does that happen at work, with sales targets, expense claims or performance reports?

Papers in the last 30 days — unethical behavior: 1 · moral disengagement: 2

The annotation labour behind AI

Annotation cost reduction and reinforcement learning from human feedback appear on 44 recent papers in the AI journals, among 71 papers on annotation and human feedback, but only 8 of them carry a worker, labour, wage, platform or ethics keyword. Millions of people label data and rate model outputs, often through platforms in low-income countries. What are they paid, and how does the pay shape the data?

Hiring by algorithm, audited

Recruitment, job matching and hiring discrimination appear on 109 recent papers across the economics, management and AI journals, with 32 in the last quarter against about 25 per quarter before; 32 of them carry a bias, fairness, algorithm or AI keyword. Screening tools now read millions of applications, and New York requires bias audits of them. What do the audits find, and do they change outcomes?