Grass-roots AI Network for Supporting Ethical Design Practice

Abstract

AI technologies are making rapid progress and demanded to consider AI ethics. Actually, many AI ethical principles, guidelines, results of case studies, etc. have been provided by academic societies, governments, international organizations, etc. However, few AI projects in engineering positively introduce such AI ethics; there is a gap between AI technologies and AI ethics. Recent studies have shown that an AI-based creativity support tool can contribute to fill the gap between them. At the same time, these studies are clarifying that one creativity support tool alone is insufficient. One of the reasons is that ethics relates societal values and no system can be neutral on these values. Therefore, this research proposes to develop a grass-roots AI network to support ethical design practice including ethical AI and to realize complementary relationships among the systems. Then, this paper reports a result of a study that simulates to network two existing creativity support tools and confirms the feasibility of such complementary relationships.