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Anticipatory Technology Ethics Reflection by Eliciting Creative AI Imaginaries Through Fictional Research Abstracts
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FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, pp. 125-136
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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 the same 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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Jääskeläinen, P, Sanchez, C & Holzapfel, A 2025, Anticipatory Technology Ethics Reflection by Eliciting Creative AI Imaginaries Through Fictional Research Abstracts. in FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. ACM, New York, pp. 125-136, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Athens, Greece, 23/06/2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715275.3732011