UX + AI Resources

Resources on improving user experiences (UX) for artificial intelligence (AI) are compiled here. These resources are primarily related to machine learning, but can be used for any technologies.

Last updated: February 2025. Content initially posted on Medium, Mar 29, 2020.
Resources are added as they are curated. Contact Carol with recommendations.

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Curiosity Activating UX Activities

Abusability Testing: UX in the Age of Abusability. The role of Composition, Collaboration, and Craft in building ethical products. By Dan Brown. Sep 18, 2018.
Abusability Testing: Article describing the Abusability Testing workshop. Organized by Anna Abovyan, Theora Kvitka and Allison Cosby of the Pittsburgh IxDA Chapter for World Interaction Design Day 2019.
“Black Mirror” Episodes: Black Mirror, Light Mirror: Teaching Technology Ethics Through Speculation. By Casey Fiesler. Oct 15, 2018.
Implicit Association Test (IAT) via Harvard University

Tools for Supporting Ethical AI

Checklist to prompt intentional, uncomfortable conversations: Designing Ethical AI Experiences: Checklist and Agreement. By Carol J. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University.
Datasheets for Datasets. Paper: “Datasheets for Datasets” on arxiv by Timnit Gebru, Jamie Morgenstern, Briana Vecchione, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach, Hal Daumé III, Kate Crawford.
Markdown for Datasheets for Datasets by JRMeyer (GitHub — includes LaTeX version).
Ethics checklist for data scientists. By Deon.

Lists of Additional Resources

Awesome AI Guidelines on GitHub. From EthicalML
Awful AI Curated list to track current scary usages of AI — hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society. By David Dao
List of ethics articles on Medium. By Eirini Malliaraki
Machine Learning and User Experience: A Few Resources. By Michelle Carney
Mapping of ethical principles — Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping consensus in ethical and rights-based approaches to principles for AI. By Jessica Fjeld and Adam Nagy, Harvard University — Download the visualization!
Tech Ethics in The News. Updated weekly from students in Casey Fiesler’s Information Ethics and Policy classes at CU Boulder.

Organizations and Newsletters

AI Ethics newsletter from the Montreal AI Ethics Institute
AI Now Institute
Algorithm Watch newsletter
Ethical OS
Lighthouse3 weekly Ethics newsletter
ML Engineer weekly newsletter from The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning from The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning
Radical AI Network

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Books

11 books to read after watching Netflix’s The Social Dilemma from Fast Company
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Noble
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

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Carol Smith’s Contributions

Writings and presentations are on SlideShare.
“Designing Trustworthy AI for Human-Machine Teaming”
Checklist to prompt intentional, uncomfortable conversations (same as linked above): Designing Ethical AI Experiences: Checklist and Agreement Carnegie Mellon University, Fact Sheet.
“Designing Trustworthy AI: A Human-Machine Teaming Framework to Guide Development.” — Paper presented at AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Symposium FSS-19: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector. Hosted at Carnegie Mellon University.
“Creating a Curious, Ethical AI Workforce” Essay published in War on the Rocks.
“Intentionally Ethical AI Experiences” Invited essay published in the Journal of Usability Studies by UXPA.