How AI and Art Hold Each Other Accountable
News blog by Beth Jensen. Published on the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence website. Excerpt: The arts have a major role to play in the fairness of our technological . . .
Creativity
What happens when a machine can write as well as an academic?
News article by Michael Mindzak. Published in University Affairs. Excerpt: As AI-facilitated algorithmic writing improves, it poses tricky questions about authorship and what constitutes an “original” paper or assignment. Recently . . .
Should AI-Written News Stories Have Bylines? Whose?
News article by Brendan Dixon. Published in Mindmatters. Excerpt: Consider OpenAI’s GPT-2 text generation AI. OpenAI claims GPT-2 can create “coherent paragraphs of text” (though what we’ve seen stretches the meaning of “coherent”). It . . .
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Book by Arthur I. Miller.Published by MIT Press. 432 pages. An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass . . .
An ethical checklist for robot journalism
News article by Tom Kent. Published in Medium. Excerpt: It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence to write news. Robots are regularly transforming data into stories, and . . .
Fluxus Landscape: An Expansive View of AI Ethics and Governance
Tool that maps and categorizes approximately 500 AI ethics and governance stakeholders and actors. Its goals are both practical and artistic: to help the global community interested in AI ethics . . .
Creativity: Can Computers Cut It?
Lecture by Richard Harvey. Produced by Gresham College. Runtime 53 minutes. Examines computer-created artifacts and ask if we can tell if the creator was human or artificial. Computers are often . . .
Can Robots Tighten the Bolts on a Rickety Caregiver Sector?
By Nic Carey. Published in Scientific American. Excerpt: Robotic aides could relieve the burden of caring for a growing elderly and disabled population—if we can take advantage of technological advances . . .
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
By Mary Shelley. Edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert. Published by MIT Press. 320 pages. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for . . .
Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
Edited by by Damith Herath, Christian Kroos and Stelarc. Published by Springer. 456 pages. The first compendium on robotic art of its kind, this book explores the integration of robots . . .
Values at Play in Digital Games
By Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum. Published by MIT Press. 224 pages. All games express and embody human values, providing a compelling arena in which we play out beliefs and . . .
Beyond Choices: The Design of Ethical Gameplay
By Miguel Sicart. Published by MIT Press. 192 pages. Today’s blockbuster video games—and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots—provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail . . .