I was interviewed along with a slew of experts for this piece in TheStreet about AI art and human creativity — talking a bit about the creative process and what we lose when machines take us straight to the finished product, instead of engaging with our own limits and capacities to define ideas on our own terms.

In short: when we define creativity as a product, not a process, we lose much of what makes art personal — and “human.”

➡️🤖https://www.thestreet.com/technology/human-creativity-persists-era-of-generative-artificial-intelligence

(reminder) APPLICATIONS DUE Tuesday 10 January 2023:

New #NSF-funded program in #AIEthics and #DataEthics at #NortheasternUniversity!

We'll bring in cohorts of approx. 10 #philosophy (or related) graduate students to #Boston for 10 weeks for each of the next 3 years (beginning this year) for training in #AIEthics and #DataEthics from our faculty and visiting scholars.

$12k stipend per student

More details+application info for summer 2023 at the program website.

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/ethics/summer-grad-training-program/

Fantastic

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https://www.science.org/content/article/accessing-u-s-data-research-just-got-easier

How can statistics prompt a more just, equitable world—when combined with organizing?

And how can that work become undermined?

Listening to Cyrus Mehri tell the story of the Rooney Rule, prompted by a statistical analysis of the proportion of Black coaches in the NFL that he co-authored with Johnnie L. Cochrane Jr.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1078689590/one-of-the-architects-of-the-rooney-rule-reflects-on-its-history-and-its-future