Ethical AI and Computational Creativity in Human Creative Spaces

Project dates (estimated):

September 2022 - August 2026

Name of the PhD student:

Charlotte Bird

Supervisors:

Ewa Luger – Edinburgh College of Art
Atoosa Kasirzadeh - School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Project aims:

This project aims to understand, explore and guide the ethical integration of AI in human creative spaces. This project incorporates a creativity-led perspective on collaborative AI, and the possible implications on artists, institutions, researchers, audiences and the general public.

Disciplines and subfields engaged:

  • AI Ethics

  • Computational Creativity

  • Human-Computer Interaction

  • AI Design

  • Algorithmic Impact and Responsibility

  • Moral Philosophy

Research Themes:

  • Ethics of Algorithms

    • Algorithmic Transparency and Explainability

    • Algorithmic Accountability and Responsibility

  • Ethics of Human-Machine Interaction

    • Ethics of Affective and Social Technologies

  • Emerging Technology and Human Identity

    • AI, Religion, Art and Meaning

Related outputs:

  • ​​Ethical and Social Risks of Generative Text-to-Image Models, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Charlotte Bird and Eddie Ungless, AAAI/ACM Proceedings of AI, Ethics, Society (AIES), forthcoming in 2023. 

  • ​Evaluating Prompt Engineering as a creative practice, Charlotte Bird, ACM ICCC 2023.

  • ​Evaluating Prompt Engineering as a creative practice presentation at ICCC 2023​.

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