Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS

Benford, Steve; Hazzard, Adrian; Vear, Craig; Webb, Helena; Chamberlain, Alan; Greenhalgh, Chris; Ramchurn, Richard; Marshall, Joe

Abstract

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and to propose five provocative challenges for AS: that they should look beyond failure to improvisation, beyond explainability to interpretation, beyond control to surrender, beyond caution to playfulness and beyond being tools to becoming co-creators. We reflect on how these challenges imply new considerations of trustworthiness in terms of artistic competence, sincerity and steadfastness, and of responsible innovation in terms of responsible irresponsibility that empowers humans to playfully explore the human-like qualities and boundaries of the technologies.

Citation

Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, R., & Marshall, J. (2023, July). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23)
• Start Date: Jul 11, 2023
• End Date: Jul 12, 2023
• Acceptance Date: May 23, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jul 11, 2023
• Publication Date: Jul 11, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jul 15, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 26, 2023
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Book Title: TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK
• ISBN: 9798400707346
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599709
• Keywords: Art. Trust, HCI Interaction Design,Creative
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/22726488
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597512.3599709