Kirsten Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3650406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0638-0169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Moral distance, AI, and the ethics of care
This paper investigates how the introduction of AI to decision making increases moral distance and recommends the ethics of care to augment the ethical examination of AI decision making. With AI decision making, face-to-face interactions are minimized, and decisions are part of a more opaque process that humans do not always understand. Within decision-making research, the concept of moral distance is used to explain why individuals behave unethi…
Are Algorithmic Decisions Legitimate? The Effect of Process and Outcomes on Perceptions of Legitimacy of AI Decisions
Firms use algorithms to make important business decisions. To date, the algorithmic accountability literature has elided a fundamentally empirical question important to business ethics and management: Under what circumstances, if any, are algorithmic decision-making systems considered legitimate ? The present study begins to answer this question. Using factorial vignette survey methodology, we explore the impact of decision importance, governance…
Ethics of Data and Analytics
Stakeholder Friction
The Flung Sponge
The Flung Sponge:Techniques of Grace in the Eighteenth Century Kirsten Martin (bio) In the popular classical anecdote, which most famously appears in Pliny's Natural History, the painter Protogenes struggles to depict the foam coming out of a dog's mouth. Although the painting, featuring the war hero Ialysus, is perfect in every other regard, it is still missing a certain something that seems to hinge on getting the foam right. Pliny recounts Pro…
Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology
Governing algorithmic decisions
The algorithmic accountability literature to date has primarily focused on procedural tools to govern automated decision-making systems. That prescriptive literature elides a fundamentally empirical question: whether and under what circumstances, if any, is the use of algorithmic systems to make public policy decisions perceived as legitimate? The present study begins to answer this question. Using factorial vignette survey methodology, we explor…
Ethical Implications and Accountability of Algorithms
Algorithms silently structure our lives. Algorithms can determine whether someone is hired, promoted, offered a loan, or provided housing as well as determine which political ads and news articles consumers see. Yet, the responsibility for algorithms in these important decisions is not clear. This article identifies whether developers have a responsibility for their algorithms later in use, what those firms are responsible for, and the normative …
Putting mobile application privacy in context
Users increasingly use mobile devices to engage in social activity and commerce, enabling new forms of data collection by firms and marketers. User privacy expectations for these new forms of data collection remain unclear. A particularly difficult challenge is meeting expectations for contextual integrity, as user privacy expectations vary depending upon data type collected and context of use. This article illustrates how fine-grained, contextua…
Data aggregators, consumer data, and responsibility online
The goal of this article is to examine the strategic choices of firms collecting consumer data online and to identify the roles and obligations of the actors within the current network of online tracking. In doing so, the focus shifts from placing the onus on individuals to make an informed choice, to justifying the roles and responsibilities of firms when gathering, aggregating, and using consumers' interests or behavior online. Firms online are…
Technology, Ethical Issues in
The words “innovative” and “innovation” are bantered about in the media, in business, and in our everyday lives. The words evoke a feeling of progress with technology moving us upward and forward while simultaneously pushing aside existing, soon to be outdated, technology. How does business “handle” this disruption? How can we think about the responsibility for the innovation and the associated wake of changed beliefs, behaviors, and relationship…
Transaction costs, privacy, and trust
The goal of this paper is to outline the laudable goals and ultimate failure of notice and choice to respect privacy online and suggest an alternative framework to manage and research privacy. This paper suggests that the online environment is not conducive to rely on explicit agreements to respect privacy. Current privacy concerns online are framed as a temporary market failure resolvable through two options: (a) ameliorating frictions within th…
Nature/Culture Breaks
Governing algorithmic decisions
The algorithmic accountability literature to date has primarily focused on procedural tools to govern automated decision-making systems. That prescriptive literature elides a fundamentally empirical question: whether and under what circumstances, if any, is the use of algorithmic systems to make public policy decisions perceived as legitimate? The present study begins to answer this question. Using factorial vignette survey methodology, we explor…
Putting mobile application privacy in context
Users increasingly use mobile devices to engage in social activity and commerce, enabling new forms of data collection by firms and marketers. User privacy expectations for these new forms of data collection remain unclear. A particularly difficult challenge is meeting expectations for contextual integrity, as user privacy expectations vary depending upon data type collected and context of use. This article illustrates how fine-grained, contextua…
Data aggregators, consumer data, and responsibility online
The goal of this article is to examine the strategic choices of firms collecting consumer data online and to identify the roles and obligations of the actors within the current network of online tracking. In doing so, the focus shifts from placing the onus on individuals to make an informed choice, to justifying the roles and responsibilities of firms when gathering, aggregating, and using consumers' interests or behavior online. Firms online are…
Nature/Culture Breaks
Transaction costs, privacy, and trust
The goal of this paper is to outline the laudable goals and ultimate failure of notice and choice to respect privacy online and suggest an alternative framework to manage and research privacy. This paper suggests that the online environment is not conducive to rely on explicit agreements to respect privacy. Current privacy concerns online are framed as a temporary market failure resolvable through two options: (a) ameliorating frictions within th…
Technology, Ethical Issues in
The words “innovative” and “innovation” are bantered about in the media, in business, and in our everyday lives. The words evoke a feeling of progress with technology moving us upward and forward while simultaneously pushing aside existing, soon to be outdated, technology. How does business “handle” this disruption? How can we think about the responsibility for the innovation and the associated wake of changed beliefs, behaviors, and relationship…
Putting mobile application privacy in context
Users increasingly use mobile devices to engage in social activity and commerce, enabling new forms of data collection by firms and marketers. User privacy expectations for these new forms of data collection remain unclear. A particularly difficult challenge is meeting expectations for contextual integrity, as user privacy expectations vary depending upon data type collected and context of use. This article illustrates how fine-grained, contextua…
Data aggregators, consumer data, and responsibility online
The goal of this article is to examine the strategic choices of firms collecting consumer data online and to identify the roles and obligations of the actors within the current network of online tracking. In doing so, the focus shifts from placing the onus on individuals to make an informed choice, to justifying the roles and responsibilities of firms when gathering, aggregating, and using consumers' interests or behavior online. Firms online are…
Ethical Implications and Accountability of Algorithms
Algorithms silently structure our lives. Algorithms can determine whether someone is hired, promoted, offered a loan, or provided housing as well as determine which political ads and news articles consumers see. Yet, the responsibility for algorithms in these important decisions is not clear. This article identifies whether developers have a responsibility for their algorithms later in use, what those firms are responsible for, and the normative …
Ethics of Data and Analytics
Stakeholder Friction
The Flung Sponge
The Flung Sponge:Techniques of Grace in the Eighteenth Century Kirsten Martin (bio) In the popular classical anecdote, which most famously appears in Pliny's Natural History, the painter Protogenes struggles to depict the foam coming out of a dog's mouth. Although the painting, featuring the war hero Ialysus, is perfect in every other regard, it is still missing a certain something that seems to hinge on getting the foam right. Pliny recounts Pro…
Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology
Governing algorithmic decisions
The algorithmic accountability literature to date has primarily focused on procedural tools to govern automated decision-making systems. That prescriptive literature elides a fundamentally empirical question: whether and under what circumstances, if any, is the use of algorithmic systems to make public policy decisions perceived as legitimate? The present study begins to answer this question. Using factorial vignette survey methodology, we explor…
Are Algorithmic Decisions Legitimate? The Effect of Process and Outcomes on Perceptions of Legitimacy of AI Decisions
Firms use algorithms to make important business decisions. To date, the algorithmic accountability literature has elided a fundamentally empirical question important to business ethics and management: Under what circumstances, if any, are algorithmic decision-making systems considered legitimate ? The present study begins to answer this question. Using factorial vignette survey methodology, we explore the impact of decision importance, governance…
Moral distance, AI, and the ethics of care
This paper investigates how the introduction of AI to decision making increases moral distance and recommends the ethics of care to augment the ethical examination of AI decision making. With AI decision making, face-to-face interactions are minimized, and decisions are part of a more opaque process that humans do not always understand. Within decision-making research, the concept of moral distance is used to explain why individuals behave unethi…
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Accountability (3 works) · Business ethics (3 works)