Rethinking Research Ethics in the Age of AI
Prof. Kostas Karpouzis
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Abstract: AI is reshaping research across disciplines, but its integration raises
ethical challenges that technical communities can’t ignore. This talk
examines how AI complicates core principles like informed consent,
transparency, and accountability—both as a research subject and as a
methodological tool. From biased models and opaque systems to the use of
AI in writing and peer review, traditional review mechanisms and legal
frameworks like GDPR often fall short. I’ll outline key issues facing CS
researchers, including data governance, dual-use risks, and authorship
questions, and argue for ethics-aware design practices and
interdisciplinary collaboration as essential components of responsible
AI research.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr Kostas Karpouzis is an assistant professor at the Department of
Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University. His research
deals with algorithms that make computer systems more adaptive to how
people interact with them and how digital games and gamification, as
cultural artifacts, can be used to teach conventional and social skills.
At the same time, he explores the ethical and social values embedded in
and influenced by AI systems. He has given three talks at TEDx events
and his TED-Ed video "Can machines read your emotions?" has been viewed
over 670,000 times and translated into 26 languages.