Observatory for Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Organizations

The Observatory for AI & Ethics in Organizations is a research joint venture between IESE’s Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Management Initiative, IESE’s Center for Business in Society, ESSEC Business School, ETH Zurich, Campus-Biomedico University, D’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara University and the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

The observatory aims to identify and understand ethical and organizational issues emerging due to the pervasive adoption and use of artificial intelligence in business and society.

Considering the rapid expansion of AI applications, discussions about ethical and responsible use of AI in organizational settings have indeed become urgent for managers, policymakers, NGOs, customers, activists and others.

The Observatory for AI & Ethics in Organizations will explore these issues, conducting research projects that will involve experts in organizational science, human resource management, innovation management and applied philosophy.

The main activities of the observatory include:

• Conducting research projects that identify and analyze ethical issues associated with the adoption and use of AI in organizations and society
• Organization of research symposia in international conferences such as the AOM Annual Meeting and the EGOS Annual Conference
• Publication of papers in top peer-reviewed scientific journals
• Publication of cases and teaching notes related to AI, ethics and organizations
• Publication of articles in newspapers and magazines for the general public
• Organization of seminars and lectures for executives and the general public
• Participating in calls for European and international research funding

Conference Presentations

• Vaccaro, A. Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-espionage: strategies to prevent and manage responsibly, CyberSEC2025 Conference, Rome 5-6 of March 2025.
• Fioravante, R. Vaccaro, A. Humanism, Dehumanization and Human integral Development, presented at Society for Business Ethics Annual Conference, Chicago, 8-13 August 2024.
• Fioravante, R., Vaccaro, A. Humanistic Integral Ethical Decision Making on designing and implementing AI technologies in working organizations, presented at 22nd IESE Symposium “The Role of Ethics in Turbulent Times: Rationality and Virtues in DecisionMaking” at IESE Business School. Barcelona, 19-20 June 2023.
• Di Lauro S., Tursunbayeva A., Antonelli G., Moschera L. Examining job characteristics and job quality in remote work, presented at the European Academy of Management “Transforming Business for Good”, Trinity College Dublin, 14-16 June 2023.
• Tursunbayeva, A., Antonelli, G. Workshop: Hybridisation of Management Approaches in Europe in the Turbulent Post-Pandemic Period, British Academy of Management, 2-6 September 2024.

• Fioravante, R. Vaccaro, A. Humanism and Artificial Intelligence (book), Springer, May 2025.
• Vaccaro, A. Fioravante, R. For AI development with ethical underpinnings, we should embrace humanism, IESE INSIGHT, May 2025 https://www.iese.edu/insight/articles/humanism-artificial-intelligence-ethics/
• Vaccaro, A. Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-espionage: strategies to prevent and manage responsibly, CyberSEC2025 Conference, Rome 5-6 of March 2025.
• Vaccaro, A. Fioravante, R. AI And Creativity: How Business Can Add Ethics To Decision-Making, Forbes, January 2025 https://www.forbes.com/sites/iese/2025/01/16/ai-and-creativity-how-business-can-add-ethics-to-decision-making/
• Fioravante, R. Vaccaro, A. Personalism in Generative AI Deployment: Deciding Ethically When Human Creative Expression is at Stake, Humanistic Management Journal https://doi.org/10.1007/s41463-024-00193-9
• Vaccaro, A., Fioravante, R., Antonelli, G. Dealing with AI Loneliness, manipulations and suicides, IESE Case Study, forthcoming January 2025.
• Vaccaro, A., Fioravante, R., Antonelli, G. Dealing with AI Loneliness, manipulations and suicides, IESE teaching note, forthcoming January 2025.
• Vaccaro, A., González-Peralta, O. Who picks up the errors of artificial intelligence?, IESE Case Study BEN-167-E.
• Di Lauro, S., Tursunbayeva, A., Antonelli, G., Moschera, L. (2024). Disrupting human resource management with people analytics: a study of applications, value, enablers and barriers in Italy, PERSONNEL REVIEW, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-11-2023-0927
• Di Lauro, S., Tursunbayeva, A., Sarti, D., Antonelli, G., Torre, T. (2024). Demystifying People Analytics Adoption: Insights from Italy. In Toyin Adisa, HRM 5.0 Unpacking the Digitalisation of Human Resource Management. Palgrave MacMillan, ISBN 978-3-031-58911-9 ISBN 978-3-031-58912-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58912-6
• Tursunbayeva, A., Berni, A., Moschera, A. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management: Objectives and Implications. In F. P. Appio, D. La Torre, F. Lazzeri, H. Masri, & F. Schiavone (Eds.), Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society. Routledge.
• Di Lauro S., Tursunbayeva A., Antonelli G., Moschera L. (2023). Alignment of employees’ competencies with espoused organizational values. International Studies of Management & Organization, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2022.2148388