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@ARTICLE{Heinrichs:1030923,
author = {Heinrichs, Jan-Hendrik and Aslan, Serap Ergin},
title = {{A}gent regret and the moral responsibility for the misuse
of research results},
journal = {Research ethics},
volume = {21},
number = {2},
issn = {1747-0161},
address = {London [u.a.]},
publisher = {Sage Publ.},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-05516},
pages = {245-266},
year = {2024},
note = {The project has been funded by the German Ministry für
Education and Research (BMBF) Project DUMFE (Dual Use and
Misuse of Research Results), 01GP2187},
abstract = {An increasing number of research fields must expect that
their projects will be classified as susceptible to misuse
or otherwise security relevant, even if the reasons or
criteria for this classification have not yet been uniformly
developed. Research institutions will commonly distribute
the obligation to predict and prevent misuse across multiple
members and structures including ethics committees. However,
cases of misuse occur even in spite of these precautions,
raising the question of the type and distribution of
responsibility for the resulting harm. This question becomes
even more pressing if research ethics committees in their
decisions ask researchers to provide a misuse- specific risk
assessment or risk mitigation plan and thereby shift back a
part of their responsibility on the researchers. While this
kind of requirement may be considered as unsatisfactory by
researchers, members of research ethics committees or boards
and third-party funders, will argue that it fulfils two
important functions. On the one hand, it makes use of the
best available source for misuse risk-assessment available
to most committees; on the other hand, it guarantees that
the researchers at least try to take responsibility. If
researchers, committee members and others involved discharge
their obligation to predict and mitigate misuse risks with
due diligence, any backward-looking responsibility they
retain is to show agent regret for the results of their work
having been misused.},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5255 - Neuroethics and Ethics of Information (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001299423100001},
doi = {10.1177/17470161241272760},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1030923},
}