Attending #CHI2025? Today at 10:30AM, Laura Vardoulakis will be at the Google booth for a Q&A about work being done across Google Research, ranging from climate & healthcare to education, society centered research, & more, all with an emphasis on UX and HCI.
ETHICS
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University of Zurich Studies AI Bots Manipulation on Reddit
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Here’s an eye-opening study on AI manipulation: University of Zurich secretly used AI bots on Reddit to sway opinions with misinformation. Bots were 6x more likely to change Redditors’ minds Bots analyzed user histories to target their persuasion. We need AI agents
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AI Tools Serve Art, Not Dictate Creative Vision
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If you are familiar with Igorrr's work, you can see that this is exactly what he wanted, it's a continuation of his own creative trajectory, not some generic generative prompt expansion. The tools did not dictate the intention, aesthetics or outcome, the art did.
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Predatory Business Models: Not All Industries with Whales Are Problematic
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Broadly agree that one should not make predation machines, but I’m not convinced every industry with whales is ipso facto a predation machine.
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Regulatory Barriers to Medical API Accessibility and Professional Gatekeeping
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(This is one reason why society pretends that that API call is intractable difficult to write unless one is a licensed medical professional.)
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Ethics of User Compromise Detection API Design
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Would also mention that many people think this would be improved if one could have an API which returned http://
user.is_compromised? and if you were hypothetically capable of writing that API I would think *long and hard* about whether you would want people using it. -
Institutional qualification processes and ethical compliance dilemmas
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That is often not a fun qualification process, and many people are offended when it is run. Not running it is also a choice available, and unfortunately, the institution is aware why it could not choose to simply not run it.
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AI Systems and User Competency Assessment in Decision-Making
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Also note that you will with very high probability interact with processes which explicitly or implicitly have to decide, discretely or continuously, “Is this user competent to make their own decisions?”
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Public Institutions and Vulnerable Populations: Ethics Beyond Shutdown
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But it’s useful to reflect that one doesn’t shut down e.g. public schools just because a public school is a terrible environment for someone with active mental health issues, and one would not shut them even if convinced they uniquely exacerbated those issues.
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Product decisions and mental health: learning from institutional precedent
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Apropos “How does one make product decisions in the light of them potentially e.g. interacting with users who are struggling with mental health issues”, would point out (not for the first time) that this is a thing societal institutions have a lot of prior art on.