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Anticipatory Technology Ethics Reflection By Eliciting Creative AI Imaginaries Through Fictional Research Abstracts
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0028-9030
Aalto University, Finland.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1679-6018
2025 (English)In: The 2025 ACM Conference on Fair-ness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’25), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

From issues of intellectual property rights, environmental impact,and the question of creativity in itself, Creative AI  (AI applied to arts and design) presents many pressing ethical challenges. At thes ame time, AI ethics guidelines have been criticised for their rationalist inactionability, highlighting the need for finding ground-up approaches for exploring situated ethics and anticipatory – rather than reactive – ethics in AI technology design. In this paper, we present the results of organising two workshops with Creative AI practitioners in writing fictional research abstracts (FRAs). The participants wrote future-oriented research scenarios for Creative AI and engaged in discussion about them, with the aim to critically reflect on Creative AI ethics and futures in an anticipatory manner. In this paper, we provide an analysis of the imaginaries within the abstracts (e.g. stakeholders, technology framing, and scientific study framing in the abstract), as well as a thematic analysis of topics evoked in and by the abstracts. We observe that the FRAs facilitated five different kinds of thematic discussions, of which nature of creativity and role on AI in the society were particularly prevalent. We also witnessed socio-technical continuity that brought current and past conditions as constraints into the future scenarios. We subsequently reflect on how the FRAs engaged with ethical questions using the Anticipatory Technology Ethics perspectives of technology, artefact, and application. Our work contributes to the empirical understanding of the ethical concerns of future Creative AI technologies and their role in society, while extending the empirical insights of applying the FRA method into a situated case of anticipatory ethics reflection.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025.
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Arts
Research subject
Art, Technology and Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-363311DOI: 10.1145/3715275.3732011ISI: 001543679300009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105010813110OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-363311DiVA, id: diva2:1957847
Conference
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT 2025), Athens, Greece, June 23-26, 2025
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QC 20250804

Available from: 2025-05-13 Created: 2025-05-13 Last updated: 2026-08-14Bibliographically approved
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1. More-than-Human Re-Imaginaries of Creative AI: Ontological and Aesthetic Re-Designings
Open this publication in new window or tab >>More-than-Human Re-Imaginaries of Creative AI: Ontological and Aesthetic Re-Designings
2026 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In this doctoral dissertation, I explored what design knowledge(s) could facilitate bringing More-than-Human (MTH) commitments into the design of Creative AI technology. The work is theoretically aligned with more-than-human feminist posthumanities, and frames MTH design as an emerging and alternative design paradigm to predominant human-centred design approaches in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The central contribution is more-than-human re-imaginaries, an approach which aims at re-configuring the design practices of Creative AI towards alternative ontologies and aesthetics by examining imaginaries. The imaginaries are materialized through methods, such as fabulation, sketching, and speculative prototyping, across five design cases. More concretely, the dissertation introduces three critiques of current design practices in Creative AI that do not support MTH design: 1) human-centred conceptualization of creativity, 2) rationalist conceptualization of ecological relations, and 3) values of self-interest that are embedded through human-centred design practices. It also provides seven pathways for ontological and aesthetic more-than-human re-designing of Creative AI: 1) more-than-human conceptualization of creativity, 2) cultivating more-than-human aligned values, 3) situated designs in specific ecologies, 4) embodied more-than-human care, 5) nonhuman cultural practices, 6) more-than-human visual aesthetics, and 7) more-than-human data practices. These seven pathways are contributed as directions for further design inquiry within MTH Creative AI. They include specific design qualities and knowledge, and work as leverage points for entering into situated and nomadic more-than-human design practices of Creative AI.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2026. p. 83
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2026:47
Keywords
More-than-Human Design, Creative AI
National Category
Design
Research subject
Art, Technology and Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-386904 (URN)978-91-8106-613-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2026-09-04, https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68361159507, F3, Lindstedsvägen 26-28, Stockholm, 15:00 (English)
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QC 20260814

Available from: 2026-08-14 Created: 2026-08-13 Last updated: 2026-08-28Bibliographically approved

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