{"id":525,"date":"2025-12-06T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/?p=525"},"modified":"2025-12-06T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:03:54","slug":"ethical-responsibilities-of-interaction-designers-in-the-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/12\/06\/ethical-responsibilities-of-interaction-designers-in-the-age-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Responsibilities of Interaction Designers in the Age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interaction designers have an important ethical responsibility to protect users when working with AI, because AI systems can easily influence people without them noticing. Designers should make AI honest, easy to understand, and respectful of users\u2019 choices\u2014meaning no tricks, no hidden data use, and no pretending to be human. They also need to make sure the AI is safe, fair, and does not harm certain groups or create false trust. I think designers should always ask themselves whether the AI feature truly helps the user, or just benefits the company, and whether it might cause problems in the future, like making people too dependent on automation. Good interaction design with AI should support people\u2019s autonomy, encourage healthy skepticism, and make technology feel helpful\u2014not creepy or manipulative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interaction designers have an important ethical responsibility to protect users when working with AI, because AI systems can easily influence people without them noticing. Designers should make AI honest, easy to understand, and respectful of users\u2019 choices\u2014meaning no tricks, no hidden data use, and no pretending to be human. They also need to make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-and-ux-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}