Foresight Through Design Thinking to Ethically Inform Strategy in Artificial Intelligence Development: Design Ethology Meets the Cyberneticists
Author(s): Mark Watson* and Boris Eisenbart
Abstract:
Design Thinking has gained significant attention in recent years leading to permeation into a range of other disciplines, research areas and practical applications alike. Here, we focus specifically on the use of Design Thinking for the purpose of exploration and strategic decision-making of not-yet fully formed concepts of novel design ideas, strategies and the likes. The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses pertinent questions around its utilization rivalling with Design Thinking as such an approach. Ethical considerations in this are crucial and must be considered as AI gains attention, traction and more widespread applications as a way to predict and make decisions on future directions. This article explores concepts taken from cybernetics in the consideration of ethics, ethology and expands on the utilization of design thinking and AI in foresight and maneuvering uncertain futures.
Practical Implications: This article has a role for design thinking in the navigating the field of AI as it has shown through the addressing practical implications in the early days of user interface development and should be front and center in new developments in the infancy of this emerging development in information technology.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; AI; Cybernetics; Design Ethology; Design Thinking; Ethics; Foresight
Cite as – Watson, M., & Eisenbert, B. (2023). Foresight Through Design Thinking to Ethically Inform Strategy in Artificial Intelligence Development: Design Ethology Meets the Cyberneticists. International Journal of Design and Allied Sciences, 2 (2), 20-26.