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Trusting the (un)trustworthy? A new conceptual approach to the ethics of social care robots

Ethics of social care robots and trustAcademicdocument

Assessment outcome

total 1/4 (actionability 0 + authority 1); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 1.5/6

Total1/6
Actionability0/2
Authority1/2
Currency—

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

The text clearly names the authors of the paper.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Level 1 (capped): the quote establishes a journal venue but does not establish the peer-review status required for Level 2.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 14205 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The source explicitly focuses on AI-driven technologies and social care robots.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

The source directly discusses the ethics, moral acceptability, and governance of social care robots.

G4 · Attributablepass

The text clearly names the authors of the paper.

G5 · In forcepass

There is no indication on the page that the paper has been superseded or retracted.

Scored criteria

Actionability

0/2

Description and analysis only (Anchor 0); discusses ethical approaches to social care robots without prescribing binding steps.

Authority

1/2

Level 1 (capped): the quote establishes a journal venue but does not establish the peer-review status required for Level 2.

AI & SOCIETY (2025) 40:5903–5918 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02274-1 MAIN PAPER Trusting the (un)trustworthy? A new conceptual approach to the ethics of social care robots Joan Llorca Albareda1 · Belén Liedo2 · María Victoria Martínez‑López1,3 Received: 18 June 2024 / Accepted: 19 February 2025 / Published online: 17 May 2025

Currency

—

computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)

Classification

Coverage topicEthics of social care robots and trust
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stageN/A cross-cutting
Layerboth
Granularitydocument