Sunny Yu

Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilities and Assumptions in Large Language Models

Amid the recent uptake of Generative AI, sociotechnical scholars and critics have traced a multitude of resulting harms, with analyses largely focused on values and axiology (e.g., bias). While value-based analyses are crucial, we argue that ontologies—concerning what we allow ourselves to think or talk about—is a vit…