Workshop on AI Agent Ethics
Over the next four weeks, notice one moment where you make a decision about how to use AI in your design work, small or large, then pause long enough to write a few sentences about it. Don't analyze it. Just capture it.
Find moments during the week where you feel uncertain about whether it's okay to use AI to do or decide something in your design work. What made it uncertain?
Before the check-in interview, try to write a prompt that contains an ethical position — not a rule or a filter, but an actual value. Bring it to the interview and be ready to explain why you wrote it the way you did and how you interpreted the output produced by the AI tool.
Before the check-in interview, pick one thing you made with help of AI, small or big — a sketch, a set of design alternatives, a piece of text, a decision — and describe it as you would to those it was designed for. What do you find yourself leaving out? What do you find yourself needing to explain?
Over the next two weeks, pay attention to moments when something that an AI produces felt slightly off — not necessarily wrong, but not quite right either. Reflect on it for a moment first. What was the feeling, and what was you next step?
Before the check-in interview, look back at something you created with AI assistance and ask: whose values are visible in this? Yours, the tool's, someone else's? You don't need an exact answer — but notice where this gets hard or complex to answer.