Constantinescu, M., Uszkai, R., Vică, C. & Voinea, C.* (2022). Children-Robot Friendship, Moral Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Development. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9:818489. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2022.818489. *Author names appear alphabetically, their contribution being equal.
Can robotic AI systems be virtuous and why does this matter?
Constantinescu, M. & Crisp, R. (2022). Can robotic AI systems be virtuous and why does this matter?. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 1547–1557.
Contribution: raising a virtue-ethics-based concern regarding deployment of social robots relying on deep learning AI and developing a novel argumentation to show that robotic AI systems cannot genuinely be virtuous but can only behave in a virtuous way; highlighting implications for current research in machine ethics, technology ethics, and Human–Robot Interaction.
Blame it on the AI? On the moral responsibility of Artificial Moral Advisors.
Constantinescu, M., Vică, C., Uszkai, R. & Voinea, C. (2022). Blame it on the AI? On the moral responsibility of Artificial Moral Advisors. Philosophy & Technology, 35(2), 1-26.
Contribution: arguing that Artificial Moral Advisors (AMAs) cannot qualify as morally responsible agents based on their incapacity to meet a set of four conditions moral responsibility, previously developed by the PI in the virtue ethics traditions; arguing that AMAs could instead morally enhance users if they are interpreted as enablers for moral knowledge of the contextual variables surrounding human moral decision-making, with the unexpected implication that such a use might enlarge human moral responsibility.
Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context
Constantinescu, M., Voinea, C., Uszkai, R. & Vică, C. (2021). Understanding responsibility in Responsible AI. Dianoetic virtues and the hard problem of context. Ethics and Information Technology, 23, 803-814.
Contribution: connecting the ethical dimension of responsibility in “Responsible AI” with Aristotelian virtue ethics, where notions of context and dianoetic virtues play a grounding role for the concept of moral responsibility; exploring the practical implications along the triadic dimensions of ethics by design, ethics in design and ethics for designers.
Virtue and virtuousness in organizations: Guidelines for ascribing individual and organizational moral responsibility
Constantinescu, M., & Kaptein, M. (2021). Virtue and virtuousness in organizations: Guidelines for ascribing individual and organizational moral responsibility. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 30(4), 801–817.
Contribution: developing a two-level account of moral responsibility in organizations that connects individual and organizational moral responsibility through the concepts of virtue and virtuousness; this is further operationalized into practical guidelines to ascribe degrees of individual and organizational blame, which can be used as a tool by policymakers and industry.
Mutually Enhancing Responsibility
Constantinescu, M., & Kaptein, M. (2015). Mutually Enhancing Responsibility: A Theoretical Exploration of the Interaction Mechanisms between Individual and Corporate Moral Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 129(2), pp. 325-339.
Contribution: developing the first normative model that explains how the dynamic interactions between individual and organizational levels of moral responsibility may lead to a mutually enhancing responsibility for collective outcomes and illustrating the mechanisms generating these interactions.
Mutually Enhancing Responsibility
Constantinescu, M., & Kaptein, M. (2015). Mutually Enhancing Responsibility: A Theoretical Exploration of the Interaction Mechanisms between Individual and Corporate Moral Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 129(2), pp. 325-339.
Contribution: developing the first normative model that explains how the dynamic interactions between individual and organizational levels of moral responsibility may lead to a mutually enhancing responsibility for collective outcomes and illustrating the mechanisms generating these interactions.
Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Constantinescu, Mihaela (2013). Empirical Research into Ethics Management Programs: A Study on Romanian Organizations. Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy, VII(2), pp. 5-21.
Contribution: presenting the results and implications of the first national research on the Social Responsibility and Ethics Management programs within Romanian organizations, based on an online survey, carried by the author.
Annals of the University of Bucharest (Philosophy Series)
Constantinescu, Mihaela (2013). Attributions of Moral Responsibility: from Aristotle to Corporations. Annals of the University of Bucharest (Philosophy Series), LXII(1), pp. 19-28.
Contribution: comparing the concept of moral responsibility in its initial Aristotelian interpretation for individuals to the way applied ethics research discusses the concept related to organizations, advancing a novel proposal for organizations as secondary moral agents.