Just ask it! Using AI to Explore AI through Artistic Inquiry
Ran Peleg – University of Southampton and Michele Fontana – KOI Public Engagement
This workshop offers a unique, hands-on exploration of AI, centred around the ethical challenges it presents. Drawing inspiration from improvisational theatre techniques, the session encourages an interactive, question-driven methodology, empowering participants to critically reflect on AI’s outputs.
Participants will tackle these complex issues by engaging in creative tasks where AI plays a role in completing simple artistic works. Working in small groups, attendees will work on simple artistic projects—such as comic strips, short stories and short drama pieces —where the final step is left open. Participants will then engage in dialogue with the AI, asking key questions to uncover how it arrived at its solutions and what ethical considerations might be at play. They will then use AI to complete the artistic project based on the answers they found.