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Agonistic Dialogue on the Value and Impact of AI Music Applications
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7605-0093
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2549-6367
2024 (English)In: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity, Oxford, UK, 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this paper, we use critical and agonistic modes of inquiry to analyse and critique a specific application of AI to music practice. It records a structured interdisciplinary dialogue between 1) a musicologist and social scientist and 2) an engineer in music and computer science, focusing on folk-rnn and Irish Traditional Music (ITM) as a case study. We debate the role of data ethics in AI music applications, the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and the nature of embedded value systems and power asymmetries inherent in applying AI to music. We discuss how identifying the value of AI music applications is critical for ensuring research efforts make musical contributions along with academic and technical ones. Overall, this agonistic dialogue exemplifies how questions of right and wrong — the core of ethics — can be examined as AI is applied more and more to music practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford, UK, 2024.
Keywords [en]
AI music, Irish Traditional Music, ethics, interdisciplinary, agonistic dialogue
National Category
Music
Research subject
Art, Technology and Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-346695DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15110169OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-346695DiVA, id: diva2:1859927
Conference
2024 International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity, 9 - 11 September, The University of Oxford, UK
Funder
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2020.0102EU, Horizon 2020, 864189
Note

QC 20240523

Available from: 2024-05-22 Created: 2024-05-22 Last updated: 2026-05-08Bibliographically approved
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1. Repairing Creative AI: Critical explorations of frictions, reconfigurations, and reflexivity
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Repairing Creative AI: Critical explorations of frictions, reconfigurations, and reflexivity
2026 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

The impact of AI technologies on cultural and creative sectors and industries is expected to increase dramatically in the upcoming years. As significant uncertainties rattle the political economy of artmaking, not all stakeholders feel their interests and concerns are equally recognised. At stake here are not only individual career prospects but the entire horizon of our envisioned cultural-technological futures. 

This dissertation examines artificial intelligence (AI) models in creative domains, focusing on their emerging impact on the conditions and infrastructures of artistic work. It frames the transition of this socio-technical system as an instance of a broken world, and extends Creative AI ethics beyond abstract principles towards the situated, lived experiences of the various stakeholders involved: artists and music communities, as well as developers and service providers of Creative AI applications. Grounded on critical analysis and ethics of care, the dissertation explores the tensions and transitions practising artists experience in their working environments in the context of rapid AI proliferation, and how AI development work practices could better support artists in navigating the rapidly changing socio-technical AI landscape. 

Drawing on six empirical case studies, the dissertation contributes, first, an analysis of the frictions and reconfigured conditions of artmaking, as experienced by Nordic AI artists in the early 2020s. Second, it introduces care ethics to the analysis of Creative AI and proposes sustained reflexive repair as a novel conceptual lens for managing disrupted cultural data relations in AI development. Overall, the dissertation argues that foregrounding repair can make the emergent ethical impacts of AI technologies and practices visible and help reconfigure paradigms for developing, designing, using, and regulating Creative AI that foster fair market conditions for artist economies and cultivate artistic integrity and agency.

Abstract [sv]

Påverkan av artificiell intelligens (AI) på de kulturella och kreativa sektorer och industrier förväntas öka dramatiskt under de kommande åren. Medan betydande osäkerheter skakar den politiska ekonomin kring konstnärligt skapande, upplever inte alla aktörer att deras intressen och bekymmer tas på lika stort allvar. På spel står inte bara individuella karriärmöjligheter, utan även hur vi föreställer oss vår kulturteknologiska framtid.

Denna avhandling undersöker AI inom kreativa områden, med fokus på dess framväxande påverkan på villkoren och infrastrukturen för konstnärligt arbete. Genom att tolka denna sociotekniska omvandling som ett exempel på en “trasig värld” (broken world), utvidgar avhandlingen den kreativ AI etik bortom abstrakta principer till de situerade och levda erfarenheterna hos de olika inblandade aktörerna: konstnärer och musikgemenskaper, samt utvecklare och tjänsteleverantörer av kreativa AI-applikationer. Avhandlingen grundar sig på kritisk analys och omsorgsetik. Den utforskar spänningar och övergångar som yrkesverksamma konstnärer upplever i sina arbetsmiljöer i samband med den snabba spridningen av AI samt hur arbetspraktiker inom AI-utveckling bättre kan stödja konstnärer i att navigera i det högst dynamiska sociotekniska AI-landskapet.

Här bidrar sex empiriska fallstudier för det första med en analys av de friktioner och omformade villkor för konstnärligt skapande så som nordiska AI-konstnärer upplevde under det tidiga 2020-talet. För det andra introducerar avhandlingen omsorgsetiken i analysen av kreativ AI och föreslår hållbar reflexiv reparation (sustained reflexive repair) som en ny begreppsram för de splittrade kulturella datarelationerna i AI-utveckling. På en allmän nivå argumenterar avhandlingen att ett fokus på reparation kan synliggöra de framväxande etiska effekterna av AI-teknologier och -praktiker, samt bidra till omställda paradigm för hur kreativ AI utvecklas, designas, används och regleras på ett sätt som främjar rättvisa marknadsvillkor för konstnärligt ekonomi och stärker konstnärlig integritet och medverkan.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2026. p. xiv, 99
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2026:27
Keywords
Creative AI, AI Ethics, AI Art, AI Music, Repair work, Critical analysis, Kreativ AI, AI-etik, AI-konst, AI-musik, reparation, kritisk analys
National Category
Music Other Legal Research Other Social Sciences Information Systems, Social aspects
Research subject
Media Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-381006 (URN)978-91-8106-571-8 (ISBN)
Public defence
2026-06-02, https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/63426445747, Flodis (F3), Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28, Stockholm, 14:00 (English)
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Funder
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS), 2020.0102
Note

QC 20260511

Available from: 2026-05-11 Created: 2026-05-08 Last updated: 2026-05-19Bibliographically approved

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