2022/06/16 by Grace Turtle · 1 voice
Computer Science · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Crafts, Textile, and Design
paper · pdf · doi:10.21606/drs.2022.782
openalex publication_date 2022/06/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
This paper contributes to scholarly discourse on design and AI by using queerness as a theoretical grounding to explore potentialities for design to interface with and imagine artificial intelligence (AI) differently. The paper does so by reporting on an autotheoretical experiment in which I pose the questions: What if we understood AI as queer, a kind of mutant, in a state of becoming; a dynamic, relational, non-binary gender variant? How then might AI show up in and act on the world (with us humans) differently? The experiment uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to unsettle how AI is understood today, and to allow for new AI propositions to take root. The work provides a glimpse into forms of design refusal that might illuminate designers to cultural computability and self-determination when designing with AI systems.