Digital Economy & Society

Digital Economy & Society

Digital Economy & Society (DES) research group explores the economic, psychological, and social implications of digitalization by addressing real-world problems through rigorous academic research. We work at the intersection of technology, people, and organizations. The research questions we address span individual, organizational, and societal levels.
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Research themes

Our research activities fall under three major themes:

1. RESPONSIBLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI GOVERNANCE

 

THE CORE RESEARCH team

Digital Economy & Society research group is based at Turku School of Economics.
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Director Matti Mäntymäki
Matti Mäntymäki

Professor
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Matti Minkkinen
Matti Minkkinen

Senior Researcher
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Professor of practice Teemu Birkstedt
Teemu Birkstedt

Professor of Practice
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Henrietta jylhä

Senior Researcher
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Featured publications

Understanding the Ethics of Generative AI: Established and New Ethical Principles

Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) present unprecedented ethical challenges, necessitating a reexamination...
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Ethics-based AI auditing: A systematic literature review on conceptualizations of ethical principles and knowledge contributions to stakeholders

Ethics-based AI auditing represents a nascent yet fragmented research domain that seeks to bridge the...
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AI governance: themes, knowledge gaps and future agendas

Following the surge of documents laying out organizations’ ethical principles for their use of artificial...
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Discerning Between the “easy” and “Hard” Problems of AI Governance

While there is widespread consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) needs to be governed owing to...
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