Events

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. 1:45pm – 4:45pm

Location: Egan 440

Title: Roundtable: Creativity, Ethics, and AI.

Abstract: This event will include discussions on AI’s creative potential, its impact on the nature of art, and the future of creative industries. It will also include a roundtable discussion with Dr. Alice Helliwell, Dr. Kathleen Creel, Dr. Sina Fazelpour, Dr. Trystan Goetze, and Kat Curwin about perspectives on creativity and AI.

Ethics Institute Speaker, Alice Helliwell

Time: 12pm – 1:30pm

Location: Renaissance Park 4th floor common room

Title: Attribution, Responsibility and AI Art

Abstract: This paper will examine attribution for AI art, framed through responsibility. I will present two problems we seem to face with AI generated works – first that some people seem less willing to praise someone when they have used AI to make a work, and second that people seem to be concerned that artists may have had their images used in training and yet receive no credit for this. I will make use of the concept of aesthetic responsibility (Wolf, 2016) to explain the first issue. I will then argue that the concept of aesthetic responsibility as characterised by Wolf is flawed – as it does not overlap in all cases with the responsibility that artists have towards their works. I will propose an additional category of responsibility which I call artistic responsibility. I put forward that this distinction can help us understand a variety of artworks, in particular AI art, where I will argue that aesthetic responsibility and artistic responsibility also do not fully overlap. This, I will suggest, opens the door for data subjects to be attributed with a form of responsibility for AI works that resemble their art, even where they are not involved in (or even aware of) the process of making them.

About the Speaker: Alice Helliwell is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London