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Toward a coalescent ethics of enactive AI: a synthetic analysis across frameworks of gender, agency, and AI design

Jul 2026 · AI and Ethics · Vol 6 · 1 citation · 49 references

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A coalescent ethics of AI design is developed by bringing three converging bodies of scholarship into productive dialogue: the coalescent agency framework’s functional criteria for preserving human agency in human-AI systems; the enactive artificial intelligence model’s intersectional and gender-inclusive design prescriptions; and recent empirical findings on how Gen Z users in China construct gendered meanings in their interactions with generative AI.

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