
Mihaela ConstantinescuUniversity of Bucharest | Unibuc · Faculty of Philosophy
Mihaela Constantinescu
PhD, Philosophy
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Introduction
Mihaela is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest and Executive Director of the Research Center in Applied Ethics (CCEA). Her research interests include virtue ethics, business ethics, and AI ethics. She is currently exploring the concepts of moral responsibility and moral agency in relation to individuals, organizations and AI. Mihaela has previously worked outside academia as a communications consultant in the public, private & NGO sectors.
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March 2021 - present
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October 2009 - February 2013
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On the background of recent concerns regarding online education in times of pandemic and a growing pedagogical divide in terms of unequal access to skilled teachers, we consider it timely to open a debate surrounding the use of social robots in education fulfilling a role that is anchored in the institution of pedagogs in Antiquity and which was so...
On the background of recent concerns regarding online education in times of pandemic and a growing pedagogical divide in terms of unequal access to skilled teachers, we consider it timely to open a debate surrounding the use of social robots in education fulfilling a role that is anchored in the institution of pedagogs in Antiquity and which was so...
Social robots are increasingly developed for the companionship of children. In this article we explore the moral implications of children-robot friendships using the Aristotelian framework of virtue ethics. We adopt a moderate position and argue that, although robots cannot be virtue friends, they can nonetheless enable children to exercise ethical...
The growing use of social robots in times of isolation refocuses ethical concerns for Human-Robot Interaction and its implications for social, emotional, and moral life. In this article we raise a virtue-ethics-based concern regarding deployment of social robots relying on deep learning AI and ask whether they may be endowed with ethical virtue, en...
Deep learning AI systems have proven a wide capacity to take over human related activities such as car driving, medical diagnosing, or elderly care, often displaying behaviour with unpredictable consequences, including negative ones. This has raised the question whether highly autonomous AI may qualify as morally responsible agents. In this article...
AI systems based on Machine Learning (ML) used across various domains, from surveillance and face or voice recognition to justice, insurance, and recruitment, not to mention search engines and chatbots, have proven to reflect or even to amplify human bias that was inextricably linked to the training data sets. As algorithmic bias has received more...
As deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that relies on machine (deep) learning faces more and more ethical challenges, the need to approach AI from a robust ethical framework is more and more pressing. This has led international bodies such as OECD, the European Commission or UNESCO, to develop policy documents that integrate and respond to e...
During the last decade there has been burgeoning research concerning the ways in which we should think of and apply the concept of responsibility for Artificial Intelligence. Despite this conceptual richness, there is still a lack of consensus regarding what Responsible AI entails on both conceptual and practical levels. The aim of this paper is to...
As deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that relies on machine (deep) learning faces more and more ethical challenges, the need to approach AI from a robust ethical framework is more and more pressing. This has led international bodies such as OECD, the European Commission or UNESCO, to develop policy documents that integrate and respond to e...
Social robots are increasingly developed for the companionship of children. In this article we explore the moral implications of children-robot friendships using the Aristotelian framework of virtue ethics. We adopt a moderate position and argue that, although robots cannot be virtue friends, they can nonetheless enable children to exercise ethical...
This article advances research on moral responsibility in organizations by drawing on both philosophical virtue ethics grounded in the Aristotelian tradition and Positive Organizational Scholarship research concerned with virtuousness. The article discusses the very conditions that make possible the realization of virtues and virtuousness, respecti...
The growing use of social robots in times of isolation refocuses ethical concerns for Human-Robot Interaction and its implications for social, emotional, and moral life. In this article we raise a virtue-ethics-based concern regarding deployment of social robots relying on deep learning AI and ask whether they may be endowed with ethical virtue, en...
During the last decade there has been burgeoning research concerning the ways in which we should think of and apply the concept of responsibility for Artificial Intelligence. Despite this conceptual richness, there is still a lack of consensus regarding what Responsible AI entails on both conceptual and practical levels. The aim of this paper is to...
Acknowledging that responsible management practice integrates sustainability, responsibility and ethics, this chapter focuses on the ethics component of the responsible management field, both in terms of what ethics is and how to manage it. The chapter connects the organizational and managerial levels of ethical issues by discussing the relationshi...
The book chapter explores business ethics insights of a virtue ethics orientation to add a normative component to empirical research on CSR concerned with intrinsic and extrinsic drivers for organizational social performance. It argues that we need to adopt a broader perspective concerning the intrinsic motivations of business organizations to purs...
This chapter "Corporations as moral entities" of the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics presents an overview of the literature about corporations as moral entities.
Research on organizational ethics in healthcare has made some important steps over the past two decades in exploring how context impacts the medical act itself. However, aspects of the organizational context, such as the relation compliance-integrity, are still approached in a dichotomous manner, and this potentially impedes the development of the...
With the growing concern of both corporations and their stakeholders towards social responsibility reporting, CSR standards and guidelines have become a common point of reference for practitioners, regulating bodies and scholars alike. However, research in the business ethics field seems to have given less attention to the way ethical concepts and...
Moral responsibility for outcomes in corporate settings can be ascribed either to the individual members, the corporation, or both. In the latter case, the relationship between individual and corporate responsibility can be approached as proportional, such that an increase in individual responsibility leads to a decrease in corporate responsibility...
This article discusses the results of an exploratory empirical research into the current state of ethics management programs in Romanian organizations. It highlights most prominent trends in what concerns the way Romanian organizations internalize their moral responsibility, as translated into institutionalized ethics activities ranging from writin...
With the growing interest towards moral issues within corporate settings, attributions of moral responsibility are extending from individual agents to collective agents such as corporations. But are the latter capable of satisfying the necessary and sufficient conditions for moral responsibility ascriptions traditionally defined in the Aristotelian...