Robert Sparrow

According to our database, Robert Sparrow authored at least 25 papers between 2006 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Enhancement.

Blake Hereth, Gérard de Boisboissel, Martin Charles Marshall Bricknell, Maria Brincker, William D. Casebeer, Jovana Davidovic, Jeremy V. Davis, Jacob Earl, Nir Eisikovits, Daniel J. Feldman, Lucas França Garcia, Frédéric Gilbert, Vincent Guérin, Adam Henschke, James Hughes, Dominique Lambert, Sahar Latheef, Jonathan D. Moreno, Ian Shane Peebles, Michelle T. Pham, Shira Pindyck, Ilya Rudyak, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Neil D. Shortland, Robert Sparrow, Joseph A. Stramondo, Laure Tabouy, Paul Tubig, David Whetham, Nicholas G. Evans

Sci. Eng. Ethics, February, 2026

Against Imaginary Friends: Why Digital Companions Are No Solution to Social Isolation.

Robert Sparrow, James Brown

Commun. ACM, February, 2026

2025

Bullshit universities: the future of automated education.

Robert Sparrow, Gene Flenady

AI Soc., October, 2025

High hopes for "Deep Medicine"? AI, economics, and the future of care.

Robert Sparrow, Joshua Hatherley

CoRR, July, 2025

The promise and perils of AI in medicine.

Robert Sparrow, Joshua Hatherley

CoRR, May, 2025

The Testimony Gap: Machines and Reasons.

Robert Sparrow, Gene Flenady

Minds Mach., March, 2025

2024

Friendly AI will still be our master. Or, why we should not want to be the pets of super-intelligent computers.

Robert Sparrow

AI Soc., October, 2024

Death by Algorithm: The Frontier of Automated Killing.

Sune With, Morten Dige, Robert Sparrow, Ingvild Bode, Elke Schwarz, Neil Renic, Iben Yde

Proceedings of the Social Robots with AI: Prospects, 2024

2023

Should we embrace "Big Sister"? Smart speakers as a means to combat intimate partner violence.

Robert Sparrow, Mark Andrejevic, Bridget Harris

Ethics Inf. Technol., December, 2023

Do Robots Have Sex? A Prolegomenon.

Robert Sparrow, Eliana Horn, Friederike Eyssel

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, November, 2023

Diachronic and synchronic variation in the performance of adaptive machine learning systems: the ethical challenges.

Joshua Hatherley, Robert Sparrow

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., January, 2023

2021

Virtue and Vice in Our Relationships with Robots: Is There an Asymmetry and How Might it be Explained?

Robert Sparrow

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2021

Why machines cannot be moral.

Robert Sparrow

AI Soc., 2021

2020

Do Robots Have Race?: Race, Social Construction, and HRI.

Robert Sparrow

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2020

What Robots Represent... and Why It Matters.

Robert Sparrow

Proceedings of the Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics, 2020

2018

Playing for Fun, Training for War: Can Popular Claims About Recreational Video Gaming and Military Simulations be Reconciled?

Robert Sparrow, Rebecca Harrison, Justin Oakley, Brendan Keogh

Games Cult., 2018

Robots And Racism.

Christoph Bartneck, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Qi Min Ser, Graeme Woodward, Robert Sparrow, Siheng Wang, Friederike Eyssel

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018

2017

Robots, Rape, and Representation.

Robert Sparrow

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2017

2016

Robots in aged care: a dystopian future?

Robert Sparrow

AI Soc., 2016

Kicking a Robot Dog.

Robert Sparrow

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation, 2016

2012

"Just Say No" to Drones.

Robert Sparrow

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag., 2012

2009

Predators or plowshares? arms control of robotic weapons.

Robert Sparrow

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag., 2009

Building a Better WarBot: Ethical Issues in the Design of Unmanned Systems for Military Applications.

Robert Sparrow

Sci. Eng. Ethics, 2009

2008

Talkin' 'bout a (nanotechnological) revolution.

Robert Sparrow

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag., 2008

2006

In the hands of machines? The future of aged care.

Robert Sparrow, Linda Sparrow

Minds Mach., 2006