Rethinking responsible AI from ethical pillars to sociotechnical practice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The growing demand for Responsible AI has crystallised around normative principles: fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, safety, and value alignment, yet their implementation often reveals profound conceptual and operational instability. This research employs a constructively critical approach to examine the structural tensions underlying these pillars and argues that prevailing frameworks treat responsibility as a static compliance exercise, detached from the sociotechnical realities of AI systems. Drawing on traditions in process ethics, participatory design, and adaptive governance, the study develops a reframed understanding of Responsible AI as a dynamic, negotiated, and context-sensitive process. It advances a composite theoretical model and a layered ecosystem framework that redistributes responsibility across design, deployment, governance, and public deliberation. Through this reframing, the work offers both a critique of the dominant paradigm and a practical roadmap for interdisciplinary engagement, ethical responsiveness, and institutional reflexivity. The contribution is twofold: a conceptual synthesis that challenges the assumptions of checklist ethics, and an applied methodology with implications for AI researchers, developers, policymakers, and civil society actors working to navigate the ethical complexity of real-world AI design, deployment and use.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.091 | 0.072 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.160 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.027 | 0.027 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.019 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".