… virtual assistants. First, we provide a conceptual clarification of the term ‘virtual assistant’, …
of privacy that virtual assistants may cause. Finally, we outline the debates about the use of …

… of ethics, discusses the ethical principles of virtual assistants,(… governing these virtual
assistants, practical guidelines and … implications when building a virtual assistant. In this chapter, …

An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) like Amazon’s Alexa supports clients remotely by
performing administrative, technological, or creative tasks. IVAs have become a part of our daily …

… To do this, Section 2 analyses the ethics in design and the current regulatory framework for
the development of AI-based solutions in Europe. Section 3 introduces our VAs and Section …

… and related issues, above all ethics, the automotive industry is … This paper focuses on virtual
assistants, the personification of … Should virtual assistants just assist humans or replace them …

… ethics of dark patterns [15], we propose two additional conceptualizations of autonomy relevant
to the ethics … can be used with the example of virtual assistants, however, we believe the …

… article proposes a virtual assistant that, through dialogue, neutrality and virtual reality
technologies, … are taken in its design, such an assistant could do this better than a human …

… AI-based Virtual Assistants (VAs) are part of our daily lives … These breakthroughs in AI
have allowed these assistants to … being used as mental health assistants, health coaches or …

… of virtual assistants in industrial applications. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate virtual
assistants from … are under development; one for the IT Service Desk, and one for the Ethics & …

… The application of Virtual Assistants (VAs) is growing fast in our personal … A virtual assistant
is an intelligent application that can perform tasks or … Virtual assistants-ethics implications …