Designing Care as An AI Safeguard: A Visual Consideration

The problem this visual essay addresses is that safeguards are not designed in AI systems. One such safeguard is caring, a vital human characteristic that enables us to interact with others and the world around us in the right ways. The essay addresses the problem through a fictional comics story that targets general readers and AI designers. In the story, the main character is an AI system that wants to care. This AI system has found evidence of a caring foundation already in its design. However, more design work is needed for further caring to emerge. This visual essay hopes to show that comics can be a valuable tool for enabling AI designers to build safeguards such as caring in AI systems.