UX and AI, but no single speaker addressed the training data sources, the energy requirements,

But never once did the question arise of whether it’s ethical to even use these tools.

One topic was expressed: the AI slop

There’s a quote by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen that UX designers like repeating:

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context. A chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

As Molly White states:

There are no ethical uses of current large language models.