Digital Economy and Society - University of Turku - DES

Digital Economy & Society

The DES research group explores the interplay between the human and the digital. We study the economic, psychological, and social aspects of digitalization. We investigate digitalization on individual, organizational, and societal levels.

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Research themes

Our research activities fall under three major themes: responsible artificial intelligence,
user behavior in digital environments and socio-technical systems. Click the theme to find out more.

1. RESPONSIBLE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI GOVERNANCE

2. USER BEHAVIOR IN
DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

3. SOCIO-TECHNICAL
SYSTEMS

THE CORE RESEARCH team

The DES research group is based in the Turku School of Economics (Turku, Finland).
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Matti Mäntymäki

Professor
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Matti Minkkinen

Senior Researcher
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Teemu Birkstedt

Professor of Practice
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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...

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...

AI governance: themes, knowledge gaps and future agendas

Following the surge of documents laying out organizations’ ethical principles for their use of artificial...

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...