About Alice C Helliwell
Alice C Helliwell is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. Alice specialises in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, ethics, and aesthetics.
Alice is completing a PhD on the philosophy of AI art at the University of Kent. Alice is an active associate member of the Aesthetics Research Centre at Kent.
Qualifications
MA Hons Philosophy and Psychology (University of Edinburgh) 2015
PGCert Occupational Psychology (Birkbeck, University of London) 2017
MA History and Philosophy of Art (University of Kent) 2018
Affiliations
Aesthetics Research Centre, Kent
British Society of Aesthetics
European Society for Aesthetics
Alice C Helliwell's Research
Alice’s research is focused on the philosophical implications of computational creativity and art made by artificial intelligence. Her research aims to answer questions such as: Can AI meet the requirements of creativity? Can AI have the requisite agency or mind to be creative or make art? What are the aesthetics of AI art? And what are the ethical implications of AI creativity? This philosophical work is grounded in concrete examples from computational creativity and machine intelligence research, and draws on work from philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and ethics.
Publications
(Forthcoming) AI Art. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(2021) Darwinian Creativity as a Model for Computational Creativity. Proceedings of the 7th Computational Creativity Symposium at AISB 2021 (pp. 15-19).
(2019) Can AI Mind Be Extended? Evental Aesthetics, Vol. 8 (pp. 93-120).
Alice C Helliwell's Teaching
Alice currently teaches AI and Data Ethics and Aesthetics and has supervised both MA and BA student dissertations at Northeastern University London. Alice also leads the Sustainability, Technology, and the Future Summer School.
Alice’s previous teaching includes:
Lecturer (Northeastern University London)
Introduction to Technology and Human Values
AI and Data Ethics
Aesthetics
Sustainability, Technology, and the Future Summer School
Assistant Lecturer (University of Kent)
Introduction to Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
Introduction to History of Photography
Fashion and Costume
Teaching Qualifications
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy