What is it about?

AI technologies are increasingly used by artists and creatives, and they like any other (technological) artifacts are embedded with values. These, for example, include desensitized embodied orientations of being in the world, involving practices such as disregard, abuse, and exploitation of non-human (e.g. the climate) and human (e.g. gender and racialization in relation to power), predominant human-centered value sets (with embedded imbalances in favoring some humans more than others) and the Euro-modern perception that assumes a divide between human culture and nonhuman nature. Sustaining practices of embedding such values do not necessarily serve the kinds of futures we want to make in terms of democracy, environmental, and social sustainability, and we argue that they should be re-thought and critiqued.

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Why is it important?

The ethics of (Creative-)AI is a topic that deserves further investigation, and we have approached this through a more-than-human perspective. Thus, in this paper, we develop a critique of Creative-AI by exposing tensions using speculative care imaginaries and discuss alternative care imaginaries as a method to reveal and in turn diversify the value sets and perspectives engaged in constructing Creative-AI.

Perspectives

Writing this article was an interesting journey of exploration, that lead into new reflections on Creative-AI. We discussed alternative care imaginaries as a method to reveal and in turn diversify the value sets and perspectives engaged in constructing Creative-AI - and hope this article to facilitate further thoughts and discussions on care ethics and Creative-AI.

Petra Jääskeläinen
Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan

This is an exciting piece for me as a gender and posthumanities scholar. It explores the usefulness of the feminist ethics of care perspectives that have evolved over the last three decades inside and outside of gender studies, humanities and social sciences - in what I think of as the boundary-crossing, collaborative and in-between practices of feminist posthumanities. Enjoy!

Cecilia Åsberg
Linkopings universitet

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This page is a summary of: Exploring More-than-Human Caring in Creative-Ai Interactions, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3546155.3547278.
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