Publications


Whose Theaters, Which Training? Care and Spectacle in AI


Thomas Arnold

Theology and Science, vol. 24(3), Routledge, 2026, pp. 1--4


Compassionate AI and the alignment problem


Mark Graves, Jane Compson, Ali-Reza Bhojani, Cyrus Olsen, Thomas Arnold

Theology and Science, vol. 22, Taylor \& Francis, 2024, pp. 4--8


Understanding the spirit of a norm: Challenges for norm-learning agents


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

AI Magazine, vol. 44, 2023, pp. 524--536


Comment on Paolo Euron’s “Uncanny Beauty: Aesthetics of Companionship, Love, and Sex Robots”


Thomas Arnold

Artificial Life, vol. 28, MIT Press, 2022, pp. 124--127


Extended norms: Locating accountable decision-making in contexts of human-robot interaction


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), vol. 53, Springer, 2022, pp. 359--366


Only those who can obey can disobey: The intentional implications of artificial agent disobedience


Thomas Arnold, Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Springer International Publishing Cham, 2022, pp. 130--143


Explaining in time: Meeting interactive standards of explanation for robotic systems


Thomas Arnold, Daniel Kasenberg, Matthias Scheutz

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), vol. 10, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2021, pp. 1--23


HRI ethics and type-token ambiguity: what kind of robotic identity is most responsible?


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 22, Springer Netherlands Dordrecht, 2020, pp. 357--366


Coding Caring Workshop Report


Thomas Arnold, Morgan Currie, Andrew Elder, Jessica Feldman, Johannes Himmelreich, Fay Niker

ai100.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9861/f/coding_caring_workshop_report_1000w_0.pdf, 2019


When exceptions are the norm: Exploring the role of consent in hri


Vasanth Sarathy, Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), vol. 8, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2019, pp. 1--21


Norms, rewards, and the intentional stance: Comparing machine learning approaches to ethical training


Daniel Kasenberg, Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2018, pp. 184--190


Quasi-dilemmas for artificial moral agents


Daniel Kasenberg, Vasanth Sarathy, Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz, Tom Williams

arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02572, 2018


The “big red button” is too late: an alternative model for the ethical evaluation of AI systems


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 20, Springer Netherlands Dordrecht, 2018, pp. 59--69


Beyond moral dilemmas: exploring the ethical landscape in HRI


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction, 2017, pp. 445--452


The tactile ethics of soft robotics: Designing wisely for human--robot interaction


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Soft robotics, vol. 4, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 2017, pp. 81--87


Value alignment or misalignment-what will keep systems accountable?


Thomas Arnold, Daniel Kasenberg, Matthias Scheutz

AAAI Workshops, 2017, pp. 81--88


Against the moral Turing test: accountable design and the moral reasoning of autonomous systems


Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 18, Springer Netherlands Dordrecht, 2016, pp. 103--115


Are we ready for sex robots?


Matthias Scheutz, Thomas Arnold

2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), IEEE, 2016, pp. 351--358


Enabling basic normative HRI in a cognitive robotic architecture


Vasanth Sarathy, Jason R Wilson, Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03814, 2016


Feats without heroes: Norms, means, and ideal robotic action


Matthias Scheutz, Thomas Arnold

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 3, Frontiers Media SA, 2016, p. 32


Relational Enhancement: A Framework for Evaluating and Designing Human-Robot Relationships.


Jason R Wilson, Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz

AAAI Workshop: AI, Ethics, and Society, 2016


Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction


BF Malle, Matthias Scheutz, T Arnold, J Voiklis, C Cusimano

Sacrifice One for the Good of Many? People Apply Different Moral Norms to Human and Robot Agents, 2015


Sacrifice one for the good of many? People apply different moral norms to human and robot agents


Bertram F Malle, Matthias Scheutz, Thomas Arnold, John Voiklis, Corey Cusimano

Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction, 2015, pp. 117--124