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    Jurriaan van Diggelen, Karel van den Bosch, Mark Neerincx & José Kerstholt

  2. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Maryland, USA

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van Diggelen, J., Metcalfe, J.S., van den Bosch, K. et al. Role of emotions in responsible military AI. Ethics Inf Technol 25, 17 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09695-w

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