Mihaela Constantinescu, Executive Director of the Research Centre in Applied Ethics (CCEA), has published on 4th of October 2025 a new article exploring GenAI-created “responsibility gaps” in the digital space.
The article tackles an urgent moral dilemma in the digital age: Who is responsible when your digital avatar, powered by Generative AI (GenAI), takes actions or makes decisions on your behalf that violate moral norms?
Context of the Research: As personal avatars, fuelled by Large Language Models (LLM), become commonplace in economic, legal, and virtual environments (Metaverse), they fundamentally shift accountability. Mihaela Constantinescu’s analysis focuses on the emergence of “responsibility gaps” (or proxy gaps) because these LLM-based avatars actively and dynamically shape the representation relationship with the human counterpart. This creates situations where accountability for unethical actions appears to dissipate entirely.
The article is available for reading, Open Access, here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02660-9