Ethical Awareness of Japanese Computer Science and Software Engineering Graduate Students on Text-to-Image AI-Generated Art

Text-to-image AI models for AI-generated art has recently gained extensive media coverage and has had a significant impact on Japanese art communities and Japanese digital content sites. I am particularly interested in investigating Japanese computer science and software engineering graduate students’ awareness of ethical issues embedded in the technology necessary to create AI-generated art. This is because these students are the primary demographic hired to work at research and development (R&D) labs at the forefront of such innovations. By understanding the amount of ethical values held by these students or the lack thereof, there will be a clear understanding of what gaps in digital literacy and ethical awareness are held by prospective researchers in the field. This will better inform what areas in computer science or software engineering higher education can be improved to increase ethical and critical thinking towards the technological development, creation, public evaluation, and moderation of AI-generated content and related technologies. These gaps will be addressed through the creation of an international workshop for computer science and software engineering graduate students to assess and critique text-to-image AI-generated art.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tanja Tajmel

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Partner:

The University of Tokyo

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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