[Air-L] PhD LEVEL COURSE (Creativity & Generative AI: Philosophical Perspectives on Creative Uses of Artificial Intelligence)

[Matthew Dennis]

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*Title:* *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/creativity-generative-ai-philosophical-perspectives-on-creative-uses-of-artificial-intelligence-2/

‘*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
<https://www.rahwan.me/>, and the new media artist, Helena Nikonole
<https://nikonole.com/>. 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:

   - How generative AI can be deployed creatively in the arts, education,
   as well as the exact sciences.
   - How philosophical notions of creativity can aid understanding what is
   new about the powers of generative AI (and what is not).
   - How using generative AI in the arts, education, and academia requires
   addressing serious ethical questions.
   - 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 <https://www.ozsw.nl/> and/or 4TU Center for Ethics
and Technology <https://www.4tu.nl/ethics/> and/or another Dutch Research
School in Humanities (LOGOS).

All other participants pay a tuition fee of 300 euros

*Registration Deadline: January 15th, 2025*

Visit the course website<
https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/creativity-generative-ai-philosophical-perspectives-on-creative-uses-of-artificial-intelligence-2/>
for registration

Organizers: Matthew J. Dennis & Kaush Kalidindi

The course is organized by the Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of AI
<https://ephil.ai/> and OZSW, with the support from the ESDiT Research
Programme <https://www.esdit.nl/>.

Further information and queries, contact k.v.kalidindi at tue.nl

*Dr. Matthew J. Dennis *
*Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology *
Co-Director: Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (
ECPAI <https://ephil.ai/>)
Senior Researcher: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT
<https://www.esdit.nl/>)
Course Leader: Creativity & Generative AI: Philosophical Perspectives on
Creative Uses of Artificial Intelligence (OZSW
<https://www.ozsw.nl/activity/creativity-generative-ai/>)
Unit Editor: Artificial Intelligence & Society (Oxford University Press
<https://academic.oup.com/intersections/pages/ai-in-society>)
Next Nature Research Fellow (Next Nature
<https://nextnature.org/en/people/fellows/matthew-dennis>)
Philosophy & Ethics Capacity Group (P&E
<https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/innovation-sciences/philosophy-ethics>),
Dept. Ind. Eng. & Innovation Science (IE&IS
<https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/departments/industrial-engineering-and-innovation-sciences>),
TU Eindhoven (TU/e <https://www.tue.nl/en/>).
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