Call for Registrations: Creativity & Generative AI: Philosophical Perspectives on Creative Uses of Artificial Intelligence
Creativity & Generative AI: Philosophical Perspectives on Creative Uses of Artificial Intelligence
Location: TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Dates: 22–28 January, 2025
Duration: 5 x day-length sessions (11am–5pm)
Target Participants: PhD & Research Master students (also open to other researchers if space is available)
Full program and registration, visit the course website: https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/
‘I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing. Not for AI to do my art and writing, so that I can do my laundry and dishes’ (Joanna Maciejewska, 2024).
This widely circulated quote captures growing unease about the potential displacement of human intellectual labour and creativity by AI. With the rapid deployment of generative AI in the arts, many creative professionals worry that this technology will be especially disruptive for the creative industries (film, plastic arts, new media), as well as for how we reward creativity in education and academic research. Simply put, generative AI is showing signs that it can perform a wide variety of creative tasks, often with speed, accuracy, and alacrity. This creates a problem because many still see creativity as a key capacity of human beings, equally as distinctive as rationality or the capacity for political participation.
How should we respond to the seemingly creative capabilities of generative AI? Should we take these creative abilities seriously? What ethical issues must be dealt with in using generative AI in creative work? And looking in the other direction, does generative AI have anything to teach us about human creativity? If so, what can we learn from it? This course will explore how generative AI changes our concept of creativity, and how future iterations of this technology may transform how creativity is regarded as a fundamentally human characteristic.
Day 1 begins by exploring how philosophers understand creativity, as well as how generative AI shows signs of challenging this. This will be followed (Day 2) by an exploration of the key philosophical issues generative AI raises for creativity. Day 3 will introduce practitioners who use AI creatively, including the renowned computer scientist, Iyad Rahwan, and the new media artist, Helena Nikonole. The final two days explore how these ethical issues should govern the use of generative AI (Day 4) and for the future of work (Day 5).
During the course, participants will write an abstract on a potential paper on the philosophy of creativity and generative AI (assessed), as well as writing a plan for a future academic article on this topic (optional).
Learning Outcomes: Participants will understand the following topics:
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How generative AI can be deployed creatively in the arts, education, as well as the exact sciences.
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How philosophical notions of creativity can aid understanding what is new about the powers of generative AI (and what is not).
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How using generative AI in the arts, education, and academia requires addressing serious ethical questions.
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How the future development of generative AI may cause widespread social disruption.
Registration: Free for PhD candidates and Research Master students who are a member of the OZSW and/or 4TU Center for Ethics and Technology and/or another Dutch Research School in Humanities (LOGOS).
All other participants pay a tuition fee of 300 euros
Registration Deadline: December 19, 2024
Visit the course website<https://www.ozsw.nl/
Organizers: Matthew J. Dennis & Kaush Kalidindi
The course is organized by the Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of AI and OZSW, with the support from the ESDiT Research Programme.
Further information and queries, contact k.v.kalidindi@tue.nl
