Who: Alayt Issak, Doctoral Candidate in Interdisciplinary Design & Media, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
When: Wednesday 28th January, 15:00-16:00
Where: online only
Abstract
In this talk, I will investigate the notion of creativity that is underlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). I argue that creativity is saliently represented in the UDHR and warrants recognition as a human right, given the rapid rise of AI-mediated creative technologies. In the first part of this talk, I will address the prevailing consequential approach to the ethics of AI in the art community. I will then take on a pluralistic account to put forth the emerging non-consequential approaches. In doing so, I describe the formulation of human rights, their changing nature, and focus on the sub-species of human rights known as The Capabilities Approach. Upon introducing creativity as a matter of capabilities, I will then explore formulations by contemporary philosophers (Shannon Vallor and Mathias Risse) for a new set of ethics and rights. I will particularly focus on Risse’s formulation of Epistemic Rights and the call for the Fourth Generation of Human Rights to include digital lifeworlds. Finally, I will present creativity as a human right and end with the construction of a design philosophy to inform the design of co-creative systems.
