Publications

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Realising the digital twin: a thematic review and analysis of the ethical, legal, and social issues for digital twins in healthcare
Christopher David Burr, Shuang Qian, Peter Winter, Tim Chico, Camila Rangel Smith, David Wagg, Steven Alexander Niederer

AI & SOCIETY · 2026-02-07

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Agentic Digital Twins: A Taxonomy of Capabilities for Understanding Possible Futures
Christopher Burr, Mark Enzer, Jason Shepherd, David Wagg

arXiv · 2026-01-13

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Justified Evidence Collection for Argument-based AI Fairness Assurance
Alpay Sabuncuoglu, Christopher Burr, Carsten Maple

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency · June 23, 2025

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The philosophical foundations of digital twinning
David J Wagg, Christopher Burr, Jason Shepherd, Zack Xuereb Conti, Mark Enzer, Steven Niederer

Data-Centric Engineering · 2025

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Trustworthy and ethical assurance of digital health and healthcare
Christopher Burr, Sophie Arana, Cassandra Gould Van Praag, Ibrahim Habli, Marten Kaas, Michael Katell, Shakir Laher, David Leslie, Steven Niederer, Berk Ozturk, Nuala Polo, Zoe Porter, Philippa Ryan, Malvika Sharan, Jose Solis Lemus, Marina Strocchi, Kalle Westerling

Alan Turing Institute · 2024

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Charities are contributing to growing mistrust of mental-health text support — here's why
Christopher Burr

The Conversation · 2022

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Ethical assurance: a practical approach to the responsible design, development, and deployment of data-driven technologies
Christopher Burr, David Leslie

AI and Ethics · 2022

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Trustworthy Assurance of Digital Mental Healthcare
Christopher Burr, Rosamund Powell

Alan Turing Institute · 2022

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Normative folk psychology and decision theory
Joe Dewhurst, Christopher Burr

Mind & Language · 2022

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A Citizen's Guide to Data: Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues
Christopher Burr

Zenodo · 2021

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Digital Psychiatry: Risks and Opportunities for Public Health and Wellbeing
Christopher Burr, Jessica Morley, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi

IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society · 2020

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Empowerment or Engagement? Digital Health Technologies for Mental Healthcare
Christopher Burr, Jessica Morley
Edited by Christopher Burr, Silvia Milano

The 2019 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab · 2020

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Ethics of Digital Well-Being: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Christopher Burr, Luciano Floridi

Springer International Publishing · 2020

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The Ethics of Digital Well-Being: A Thematic Review
Christopher Burr, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi

Science and Engineering Ethics · 2020

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The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review
Jessica Morley, Caio C.V. Machado, Christopher Burr, Josh Cowls, Indra Joshi, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi

Social Science & Medicine · 2020

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Can Machines Read our Minds?
Christopher Burr, Nello Cristianini

Minds and Machines · 2019

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Bayesian Learning Models of Pain: A Call to Action
Abby Tabor, Christopher Burr

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · 2019

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An Analysis of the Interaction Between Intelligent Software Agents and Human Users
Christopher Burr, Nello Cristianini, James Ladyman

Minds and Machines · 2018

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Building machines that learn and think about morality
Christopher Burr, Geoff Keeling

Symposium on Philosophy after AI: Mind, Language and Action · 2018

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Embodied Decisions and the Predictive Brain
Christopher Burr

Philosophy and Predictive Processing · 2017

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The body as laboratory: Prediction-error minimization, embodiment, and representation
Christopher Burr, Max Jones

Philosophical Psychology · 2016

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Unifying the mind: Cognitive representations as graphical models
Christopher Burr

Philosophical Psychology · 2016

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A framework for assuring the accuracy and fidelity of an AI-enabled Digital Twin of en route UK airspace
Adam Keane, Nick Pepper, Chris Burr, Amy Hodgkin, Dewi Gould, John Korna, Marc Thomas

Proceedings of the AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum · January 12–16, 2026

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