Latest Research in Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Top Research Topics in Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

• Ethics and Social Impacts of AI — 615 papers
• Artificial Intelligence — 424 papers
• Computation and Language — 176 papers
• Scientific Computing and Data Management — 168 papers
• Human-Computer Interaction — 141 papers
• Computers and Society — 120 papers
• Embodied and Extended Cognition — 103 papers
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) — 98 papers
• AI in Service Interactions — 97 papers
• Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation — 94 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. Clean Word, Clean Function: Language as an Input Regulator in Human–AI Processes (2 citations)
3. Recursive Contextual Closure: Longitudinal Loss of Epistemic Permeability in Persistent Human-AI Ecosystems (Position Paper) (3 citations)
4. Proof Engine Infrastructure: A Claim-Graph Framework for AI-Assisted Mathematical Research
5. The Instrument — GFIS: A Verifiable Agentic Research Pipeline. Methods Note (System State as of 31 July 2026) (5 citations)
6. Conscience and its place in the governance of AI agents: the RDA-Microsoft Data Director (2 citations)
7. Recursive Sycophancy: When an LLM Addresses the Yes-Master Problem by Reproducing It (4 citations)
8. From Prompts to Constructs: A Dual-Validity Framework for Large Language Model Research in Psychology (2 citations)
9. Corruption as Functional Capture: From Diverted Flow to Self-Reproducing Systemic Environments (4 citations)
10. EvoMind: A Governed Cognitive Architecture for Persistent, Verifiable, Experience-Driven Agentic Autonomy (2 citations)
11. Minimal Organisational-Representation Sets for Artificial Reasoners: A Powerset Protocol under Contrasting Engineering Practices (3 citations)
12. Who Does Your Shopping Agent Work For? Where the hype stands against what is delivered, why the neutral agent is a false assumption, and who controls the resulting chokepoint (2 citations)
13. UnisonAI: A Computational Proof of Derived Law with Zero Trained Parameters (2 citations)
14. False Execution Status in LLM-Guided Processes: From Functional Substitution to Pseudo-Trace Contamination (2 citations)
15. The Statistical Bridge: From Events to Spines, Data Work, and the Interpretation of Results (4 citations)
16. URVSO_Formal_Verification_Core_Sovereign_AI_Transition_Systems.pdf (2 citations)
17. A Unified Framework for Human–AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy (1 citations)
18. Pragmatics beyond Humans: Meaning, Communication, and LLMs (1 citations)
19. Agentic AI: Vision and challenges (1 citations)
20. Deepfake Media Generation and Detection in the Generative AI Era: A Survey and Outlook (2 citations)