Augmentation Technologies and AI - An Ethical Design Futures Framework

TL;DR

This paper introduces an ethical design framework for augmentation technologies driven by AI, emphasizing the role of technical and professional communicators in fostering ethical futures and digital literacy.

Contribution

It presents a new ethical design futures framework for augmentation technologies and AI, guiding professional practice and pedagogy in ethical adoption and adaptation.

Findings

Framework promotes ethical design and literacy in AI and augmentation technologies.

Highlights the role of communicators in ethical AI integration.

Provides a guide for reframing professional practices around ethical AI use.

Abstract

Augmentation technologies, fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), are undergoing a process of adaptation and normalization geared to everyday users in various roles as practitioners, educators, and students. While new innovations, applications, and algorithms are developed as augmentation technology, Chapter 1 focuses on human subjects, contexts, and rhetorical strategies proposed for them by external actors. The chapter discusses core functions of technical and professional communication and provides rationale for positioning technical and professional communicators (TPCs) to understand augmentation technologies and AI as a means to design ethical futures across this work. An overview of Augmentation Technologies and AI- An Ethical Design Futures Framework serves as a guide for reframing professional practice and pedagogy to promote digital and AI literacy surrounding the ethical design, adoption, and adaptation of augmentation technologies. The chapter concludes with an overview of the remaining chapters in this book.