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| author | Barnett, Julia O'Reilly, Patrick Smith, Jason Brent Chu, Annie Pardo, Bryan |
| author_facet | Barnett, Julia O'Reilly, Patrick Smith, Jason Brent Chu, Annie Pardo, Bryan |
| contents | While research in AI methods for music generation and analysis has grown in scope and impact, AI researchers' engagement with the ethical consequences of this work has not kept pace. To encourage such engagement, many publication venues have introduced optional or required ethics statements for AI research papers. Though some authors use these ethics statements to critically engage with the broader implications of their research, we find that the majority of ethics statements in the AI music literature do not appear to be effectively utilized for this purpose. In this work, we conduct a review of ethics statements across ISMIR, NIME, and selected prominent works in AI music from the past five years. We then offer suggestions for both audio conferences and researchers for engaging with ethics statements in ways that foster meaningful reflection rather than formulaic compliance. |
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| spellingShingle | Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective Barnett, Julia O'Reilly, Patrick Smith, Jason Brent Chu, Annie Pardo, Bryan Computers and Society Sound While research in AI methods for music generation and analysis has grown in scope and impact, AI researchers' engagement with the ethical consequences of this work has not kept pace. To encourage such engagement, many publication venues have introduced optional or required ethics statements for AI research papers. Though some authors use these ethics statements to critically engage with the broader implications of their research, we find that the majority of ethics statements in the AI music literature do not appear to be effectively utilized for this purpose. In this work, we conduct a review of ethics statements across ISMIR, NIME, and selected prominent works in AI music from the past five years. We then offer suggestions for both audio conferences and researchers for engaging with ethics statements in ways that foster meaningful reflection rather than formulaic compliance. |
| title | Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective |
| topic | Computers and Society Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25496 |