Philosophy and Ethics of Data Science and AI (ELSA)

Featured Publications are Open Access available via Researchgate and Academia

Featured articles:

  • Blok, V. (2026) “Ecological Phenomenology as Method to Assess Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) of AI from a multi-level perspective”. M. Farina, X. Yu, J. Chen (Ed.), Digial Development: Technology, Ethics and Governance (published)
  • Stellinga, L., Korenhof, P., Blok, V. (2025) “Making sense of the ‘Human’ in human-centered AI: an Arendtian perspective”. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02769-x
  • Ryan, M., Blok, V. (2025) “What’s Economics Got to Do with It? Providing Theoretical Clarity on ELSA of AI”, Science and Engineering Ethics (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-025-00564-x)
  • Stellinga, L., Korenhof, P., Blok, V. (2025) “Bio-centred Artificial Intelligence: towards a progressive AI-biosphere relation through the concepts of poiesis and mimesis”, Topoi https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10270-9
  • Wang, H., Ryan, M., Blok, V. (2025) “Teaching structural AI ethics: The design and testing of an ELSA education intervention”. In: Philipp Hacker (ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society (Oxford Academic), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0008.
  • Wang, H., Blok, V. (2025) “Why putting AI ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework”. Big data & society. (doi.org/10.1177/20539517241307909).
  • Vegter, M., Blok, V., Wesselink, R. (2025) “Process Industry Disrupted: AI and the need for human orchestration”, Journal of responsible technology,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2025.100105
  • Ryan, M., Roo, N. de, Wang, H., Blok, V., Atik, C. (2024) “AI Through the Looking Glass: An empirical study of structural social and ethical challenges in AI”, AI & Society (doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02146-0).
  • Hilten, M. van, Ryan, M., Blok, V., Roo, N. de (2024) “Ethical, Legal and Social Apsects (ELSA) of AI: an Assessment Tool for Agri-food, Smart Agricultural Technology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2024.100710)
  • Blok, V. (2023) Philosophy of technology in the digital age: the datafication of the world, the homo virtualis, and the capacity of technological innovations to set the World free. Wageningen: Wageningen University.
  • Ryan, M., Blok, V. (2023) “Stop re-inventing the wheel: or how ELSA and RRI can align”. Journal of Responsible Innovation. DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2023.2196151