Research

Work in progress

Rueda, J. (under contract). AI4Science and Research Ethics. Cambridge University Press. [Cambridge Elements series in AI Ethics and Society] Stage: under peer review.

Peer-reviewed books

Rueda, J. (2025). Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change: An Anticipatory Ethics Approach. Routledge. [Routledge Research in Applied Ethics series] https://www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enhancement-and-Technomoral-Change-An-Anticipatory-Ethics-Approach/Rueda/p/book/9781041144694. Preview content here.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

50. Rueda, J.*, Ivanković, V. & Blunden, C. (2025). A Cautiously Optimistic View on LLM Use against Linguistic Injustice in Academia. Nature Machine Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01138-z

49. Rueda, J.*, Porsdam Mann, S., Delgado, J., Earp, B.D., Jongsma, K., Mertes, H., Battisti, D., de Miguel, Í., Lenarczyk, G., Raposo, V.L., Ranisch, R., Vilaça, M., Żuradzki, T., Rodríguez-Arias, D., & Puyol, A. (2025). Data governance must consider the interests of the global community. Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03837-x

48. Chin, A. H. B., Rueda, J., Sun, N., Dang, T. N. H., Bosenge‐Nguma, J. D., Md Nor, N. N. F., & Muhsin, S. M. (2025). Confugenics: East Asian Culture Favors Uptake of Human Cognitive Enhancement and IVF Genetic Technologies Amid Demographic Challenges. Monash Bioethics Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-025-00244-3

47. Rueda, J.*, Ausín, T., Coeckelbergh, M., del Valle, J. I., Lara, F., Liedo, B., Llorca Albareda, J., Mertes, H., Ranisch, R., Raposo, V. L., Stahl, B. C., Vilaça, M. & de Miguel, Í. (2025). Why dignity is a troubling concept for AI ethics. Patterns, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101207

46. Rueda, J.* (2025). He is back—The ethics of a spotlight on a past rogue scientist. Asian Bioethics Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-024-00347-9

45. Hopster, J.*, Rueda, J., & Hillenbrink, R. (2025). Conceptual Mediation in Technomoral Change: Reply to Danaher and Saetra. Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, in press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-025-10481-4

44. Isern-Mas, C., Bystranowski, P.*, Rueda, J. & Hannikainen, I. R. (2024). Does Momentary Outcome-Based Reflection Shape Bioethical Views? A Pre-Post Intervention Design. Cognitive Science, 48(11): e70009. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70009

43. Rueda, J.*, De Miguel Beriain, Í., & Montoliu, L.* (2024). Affordable pricing of CRISPR treatments is a pressing ethical imperative. The CRISPR Journal, 7(5), 220-226. https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2024.0042

42. Rueda, J., Segers, S., Hopster, J., Kudlek., K., Liedo, B., Marchiori, S. & Danaher, J.* (2024). Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing. Journal of Medical Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109801

41. Rueda, J.* (2024). Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice. Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13287

40. Rueda, J.* (2024). The global governance of genetic enhancement technologies: Justification, proposals, and challenges. Enrahonar, 72, 55-71. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1519

39. Moyano-Fernández, C., Rueda, J., Delgado, J. & Ausín, T. (2024). May Artificial Intelligence take health and sustainability on a honeymoon? Towards green technologies for multidimensional health and environmental justice. Global Bioethics, 35:1. https://doi.org/10.1080/11287462.2024.2322208

38. Villalba, A., Rueda, J., & De Miguel Beriain, Í. (2024). Human stem-cell-derived embryo models: When bioethical normativity meets biological ontology. Developmental Biology, 508, 88-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.01.009

37. De Miguel Beriain, Í., Rueda, J., & Villalba, A. (2024). Re-defining the human embryo: A legal perspective on the creation of embryos in research. EMBO Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-023-00034-0

36. Triviño Caballero, R.*, Rueda, J. & Rodríguez-Arias, D. (2023). A Slippery Argument: Ableism in the Debate on Medical Assistance in Dying. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23(11), 99–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2256263

35. Rueda, J. (2023). Understanding genetic justice in the post-enhanced world: A reply to Sinead Prince. Journal of Medical Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109572

34. Rueda, J. (2023). The ethics of doing human enhancement ethics. Futures, 153, 103236. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103236.

33. de Manuel, A., Delgado, J., Parra, I., Ausín, T., Casacuberta, D., Cruz, M., Guersenzvaig, A., Moyano, C., Rodríguez-Arias, D., Rueda, J. & Puyol, A. (2023). Ethical assessments and mitigation strategies for non-racial biases in AI-systems used during the COVID-19 pandemic. Big Data & Society, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231179199

32. Rueda, J. (2023). Problems with dystopian representations in genetic futurism. Nature Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01416-9

31. Martín, D., Rueda, J., Earp, B. & Hannikainen, I. (2023). Normality and the treatment-enhancement distinction. Neuroethics, 16:13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-023-09519-0

30. Rueda, J., Pugh, J. & Savulescu, J. (2023). Rethinking techno-moral disruption in bioethics, society, and justice. Trends in Biotechnology, 41(6), 743-744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.01.008

29. Rueda, J. (2023). ¿Automatizando la mejora moral? La inteligencia artificial para la ética [Automating moral enhancement? Artificial intelligence for ethics]. Daimon, 89, 199-209. https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon.508771

28. Rueda, J., Pugh, J. & Savulescu, J. (2023). The morally disruptive future of reprogenetic enhancement technologies. Trends in Biotechnology, 41(5), 589-592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2022.10.007

27.  Rueda, J. & Vallés-Poch, M. (2023). Genomic uncertainty as a burden for reproductive choice? The problem of probabilistic causation in non-invasive prenatal testing. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23(3), 26-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2169391

26.    Villalba, A., Rueda, J. & De Miguel, Í. (2023). Synthetic embryos: a new venue in ethical research. Reproduction, 165(4), V1-V3. https://doi.org/10.1530/REP -22-0416

25. Llorca, J. & Rueda, J. (2023). Divide and rule? Why ethical proliferation is not so wrong for technology ethics. Philosophy & Technology, 36, 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00609-8

24. Rodríguez-López, B. & Rueda, J. (2023). Artificial moral experts: Asking for ethical advice to artificial intelligent assistants. AI & Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00246-5

23. Rueda, J., Delgado Rodríguez, J. Parra Jounou, I., Hortal, J., Ausín, T. & Rodríguez-Arias, D. (2022). “Just” accuracy? Procedural fairness demands explainability in AI-based medical resource allocations. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01614-9

22. Rueda, J. (2022). COVID-19, cisnes negros y anticipación de desastres sanitarios: problemas futuros y el futuro como problema en la ética de la Salud Pública [COVID-19, black swans and the anticipation of health disasters: future problems and the future as a problem in public health ethics]. Revista Española de Salud Pública, 96: e202210058, e1-e10. https://www.sanidad.gob.es/biblioPublic/publicaciones/recursos_propios/resp/revista_cdrom/VOL96/C_ESPECIALES/RS96C_202210058.pdf

21. Martínez-López, M. V., Díaz-Cobacho, G., Liedo, B., Rueda, J. & Molina-Pérez, A. (2022). Beyond the altruistic donor: Embedding solidarity in organ procurement policies. Philosophies, 7(5), 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7050107

20. Rueda, J.  (2022) Genetic Enhancement, Human Extinction, and the Best Interests of Posthumanity. Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13085

19. de Miguel Beriain, I., & Rueda, J. (2022). Digital Covid Certificates as Immunity Passports: An Analysis of Their Main Ethical, Legal and Social Issues. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19, 635-642. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-022-10209-4

18. Delgado, J., de Manuel, A., Parra, I., Moyano, C., Rueda, J., Gueresenzvaig, A. Ausín, T., Cruz, M., Casacuberta, D., & Puyol, A. (2022). Bias In Algorithms Of AI Systems Developed For COVID-19: A Scoping Review. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 19, 407-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-022-10200-z

17. Rueda, J. & Dore-Horgan, E. (2022). A virtual prosthesis for morality? Experiential learning through XR technologies for autonomy enhancement of psychiatric offenders. AJOB Neuroscience, 13 (3), 163-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2022.2082584

16. Rueda, J. (2022). Hit by the virtual trolley: When is experimental ethics unethical? Teorema, 41(1), 7-27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27118201 [Awarded with the Teorema Essay Prize for Young Scholar 2021]

15. Rueda, J. (2022). From self-determination to offspring determination? Reproductive autonomy, procrustean parenting, and genetic enhancement. Theoria (Stockholm), 88 (6), 1086-1110. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12349

14. Hortal, J., Liedo, B., Rueda, J. & Caballero Triviño, R. (2021). The frailty of disability: A controversial triage criterion. The American Journal of Bioethics, 21 (11), 82-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2021.1980140

13. Rueda, J. (2021). Socrates in the fMRI Scanner: The Neurofoundations of Morality and the Challenge to Ethics. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 30 (4), 606-612. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180121000074

12. Lara, F. & Rueda, J. (2021). Virtual Reality not for “being someone” but for “being in someone else’s shoes”: Avoiding misconceptions in empathy enhancement. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 3674. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.741516

11. Rueda, J. (2021). Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: Age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43:91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00441-3

10. de Miguel Beriain, I. & Rueda, J. (2021). Vaccination certificates, immunity passports, and test-based travel licences: ethical, legal, and public health issues. Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases, 42:102079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102079

9. Rueda, J. (2021). Enhancing Virtue without Becoming Ned Flanders? AJOB Neuroscience, 12 (2-3), 121-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2021.1904051

8. Liedo, B. & Rueda, J. (2021). In Defense of Posthuman Vulnerability. Scientia et Fides, 9 (1), 215-239.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2021.008

7. Rueda, J., García-Barranquero, P. & Lara, F. (2021). Doctor, Please Make Me Freer: Capabilities Enhancement as a Goal of Medicine. Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy 24, 409-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10016-5

6. Rueda, J. & Lara, F. (2020). Virtual Reality and Empathy Enhancement: Ethical Aspects. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 7: 506984. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.506984   

5. Rueda, J. (2020) ¿No es país para viejos? La edad como criterio de triaje durante la pandemia COVID-19 [No Country for Old Men? Age as a triage criteria during COVID-19 Pandemic]. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reasoning, 65, 85-98. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1306

4. Rueda, J. (2020). De la libertad morfológica transhumanista a la corporalidad posthumana: convergencias y divergencias [From Transhumanist Morphological Freedom to Posthuman Corporeality: Convergences and Divergences]. Isegoría, 63, 311-328. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2020.063.02

3. de Miguel Beriain, I., & Rueda, J. (2020). Immunity passports, fundamental rights and public health hazards: a reply to Brown et al. Journal of Medical Ethics, medethics-2020-106814. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106814

2. Rueda, J., Hannikainen, I., Hortal, J., & Rodríguez-Arias, D. (2020). Examining Public Trust in Categorical versus Comprehensive Triage Criteria. The American Journal of Bioethics, 20 (7), 106-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1779867

1. Rueda, J. (2020). Climate Change, Moral Bioenhancement and the Ultimate Mostropic. Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics, 11, 277-303. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/rljae/article/view/368709

Peer-reviewed chapters in academic publishers

4. Moyano, C. & Rueda, J.* (2024). AI, Sustainability, and Environmental Ethics. In Lara, F. & Deckers. J., Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 219-236). Springer (The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, vol. 41): Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48135-2_11

3. Del Valle, I.*, Llorca, J. & Rueda, J. (2024). Ethics of Virtual Assistants. In Lara, F. & Deckers. J., Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 87-117). Springer (The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, vol. 41): Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48135-2_5

2. Rueda, J.* (2023). Doing Good with Virtual Reality: The Ethics of Using Virtual Simulations for Improving Human Morality. In Kissel, A. & Ramirez., E. J., Exploring Extended Realities: Metaphysical, Psychological, and Ethical Challenges (pp. 188-212). Routledge: NY. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003359494

1. Liedo, B.* & Rueda, J. (2022). Human Vulnerability and Inclusive Robotics. In: Grau Ruiz, M.A. (eds) Interactive Robotics: Legal, Ethical, Social and Economic Aspects. INBOTS 2021. Springer (Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol. 30): Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04305-5_3