Latest Research in AI Social Ethics

Top Research Topics in AI Social Ethics

• Ethics and Social Impacts of AI — 743 papers
• Artificial Intelligence — 496 papers
• Embodied and Extended Cognition — 257 papers
• Computation and Language — 226 papers
• Scientific Computing and Data Management — 195 papers
• Human-Computer Interaction — 182 papers
• Computers and Society — 152 papers
• AI in Service Interactions — 122 papers
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) — 115 papers
• Software Engineering — 113 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. Two Evolutionary Trajectories and a Process-Regulation Gap: From the Evolution of Agency and External Trace to Large Language Models and AWM (4 citations)
2. Ontosystematics: Foundations of a Systematic Science of Ontological Nodes (6 citations)
3. ‘Don’t call me mzungu’: negotiating migration categories and privilege in Nairobi (6 citations)
4. Doing and undoing categories in migration (6 citations)
5. Verify if you are human: what is the ‘human’ in ‘human migration’? (5 citations)
6. Clean Word, Clean Function: Language as an Input Regulator in Human–AI Processes (2 citations)
7. Recursive Contextual Closure: Longitudinal Loss of Epistemic Permeability in Persistent Human-AI Ecosystems (Position Paper) (3 citations)
8. Quasi-exile as a condition: ‘Rùn’ from a post-COVID-19 China (2 citations)
9. Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities (3 citations)
10. Proof Engine Infrastructure: A Claim-Graph Framework for AI-Assisted Mathematical Research
11. The Instrument — GFIS: A Verifiable Agentic Research Pipeline. Methods Note (System State as of 31 July 2026) (5 citations)
12. Functional Does Not Mean Fake: Toward a Concept of Artificial Feeling (3 citations)
13. The dynamics of ‘limited hybridity’ in migration: the case of Zera Beta Israel from Ethiopia (2 citations)
14. Smelling like a market: investment migration, cunning states, and the coloniality of citizenship in the Caribbean (1 citations)
15. Conscience and its place in the governance of AI agents: the RDA-Microsoft Data Director (2 citations)
16. Recursive Sycophancy: When an LLM Addresses the Yes-Master Problem by Reproducing It (4 citations)
17. From Prompts to Constructs: A Dual-Validity Framework for Large Language Model Research in Psychology (2 citations)
18. Corruption as Functional Capture: From Diverted Flow to Self-Reproducing Systemic Environments (4 citations)
19. EvoMind: A Governed Cognitive Architecture for Persistent, Verifiable, Experience-Driven Agentic Autonomy (2 citations)
20. 4000-year-old painted plaque from Southeast Indonesia reveals Austronesian Painting Tradition preceded Neolithic pottery (1 citations)

Sub-Regions

• Algorithmic Governance and Agentic Systems — 5,553 papers
• Existential Phenomenology and Human Temporality — 2,336 papers
• Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics and Classical Thought — 2,135 papers
• Migration Politics and Digital Participation — 1,381 papers
• Geopolitical Conflict and Structural Integrity — 1,139 papers