Data and Computational Ethics Research Group

Conradie, Niël H. Autonomous Military Systems: collective responsibility and distributed burdens. Ethics Inf Technol 25, 20 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09696-9
Tollon, F. (2023). Free Will as An Epistemically Innocent False Belief. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 19 (2), A2-15. https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.19.2.2
Tollon, F. Reactive agency and technology. AI Ethics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00366-6

De Villiers-Botha, Tanya “Re-assessing Google as epistemic Tool in the Age of Personalisation” (Conference Proceedings, Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research, 2022)
Tollon, Fabio. Responsibility gaps and the reactive attitudes. AI and Ethics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00172-6
Tollon F. (2022) Is AI a Problem for Forward Looking Moral Responsibility? The Problem Followed by a Solution. In: Jembere E., Gerber A.J., Viriri S., Pillay A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Research. SACAIR 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1551. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95070-5_20

Smith, James and De Villiers-Botha, Tanya (2021) Hey, Google, Leave Those Kids Alone: Against Hypernudging Children in The Age of Big Data. AI & Society (forthcoming)
Tollon, F. and Naidoo, K. (2021) On and beyond artifacts in moral relations: accounting for power and violence in Coeckelbergh’s social relationism. AI & Soc (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01303-z
Segun, Samuel T (2021) Critically engaging the ethics of AI for a global audience. Ethics Inf Technol 23, 99–105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09570-y
Tollon, Fabio (2021) The artificial view: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency. Ethics Inf Technol 23, 147–155 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09540-4
Tollon, Fabio (2021) Do others mind? Moral agents without mental states, South African Journal of Philosophy, 40:2, 182-194, DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2021.1925841
Tollon, Fabio (2021) Designed to Seduce: Epistemically Retrograde Ideation and YouTube’s Recommender System. International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 12(2), 60-71.http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2021070105
Tollon, Fabio (2021) Artifacts and Affordances: from designed properties to possibilities for action. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01155-7

Palk, A., Judy Illes, Paul M Thompson, Dan J Stein (2020) Ethical issues in global neuroimaging genetics collaborations. NeuroImage 221(117208) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920306947
Tollon, F. (2020) The artificial view: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency. Ethics Inf Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09540-4
Van Niekerk, A. (2020). Building the future in the 21st century: In conversation with Yuval Noah Harari. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 76(1), 10 pages. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6058
Van Niekerk, A. (2020) “What is the shape of future ethics?” In: D. Francois Tolmie, Rian Venter (eds.) Engaging the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy and Education, SunBonani Media.

Tollon, Fabio. 2019. Moral Agents or Mindless Machines? A critical appraisal of agency in artificial systems. Hungarian Philosophical Review 63(4), pp. 9-23
Tollon, F. (2023). Free Will as An Epistemically Innocent False Belief. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 19 (2), A2-15. https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.19.2.2

James Smith, “Hey, Google, Leave Those Kids Alone: Against Hypernudging Children in The Age of Big Data.” Honours thesis (Supervisor: Dr Tanya de Villiers-Botha)

Fabio Tollon, “Moral Encounters of the Artificial Kind: Towards a non-anthropocentric account of machine moral agency.” MA Thesis (Supervisor: Dr Tanya de Villiers-Botha)

Carmen Herbert, “Autonomous weapons systems: the permissible use of lethal force, international humanitarian law and arms control.” Master’s thesis (Supervisor: Dr Tanya de Villiers-Botha)