"AI and Human Creativity": Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski
Is AI and its tools opening up new avenues of perception and exploration for mankind or, on the contrary, diminishing them? What are the effects of AI on artistic creation? Should we revisit the concept of author? Is the future one of co-creation? Join Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and Audrey Borowski for a discussion on the impacts and ramifications of AI on human creativity.
Nicholas Halmi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and Margaret Candfield Fellow of University College, Oxford. His current research is concerned with historical consciousness and historicization in the aesthetic realm, and with cultural periodization. Among his publications is The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (2007). He is completing a book called Historization, Aesthetics, and the Past.
Pireeni Sundaralingam is both a cognitive scientist and an artist. As a poet, Pireeni has held national fellowships in poetry and been published in over 30 literary journals. As a scientist, Pireeni has held research posts at MIT’s and UCLA, researching human decision-making and innovation, and led research at Silicon Valley’s Center for Humane Technology. She has served as Science Advisor to the Irish government's Minister of Art & Heritage, and as Principal Advisor on Human Potential for a leading UN initiative. As founder of “Neuro-Resilience Consulting”, she leads strategy for a range of global organizations, optimizing for human flourishing and radical innovation.
Audrey Borowski is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her monograph, Leibniz in his World: The Making of a Savant, was published by Princeton University Press in 2024. She was previously a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy and she completed her doctorate (D.Phil) in the History of Ideas at the University of Oxford. Audrey’s current research, and second book project, focuses on the topic of data, algorithmic systems and ideology.
#philosophy #artificialintelligence #ai
05:55 AI's impact on the human brain
13:45 Two models of creativity
20:50 How different are human and artificial creativity?
29:53 Can AI create art?
37:16 Innovation and cognitive flexibility
40:29 Is creativity a core human need?
44:05 Taste and Kantian judgement
46:32 Is creativity a process or a product?
Is AI and its tools opening up new avenues of perception and exploration for mankind or, on the contrary, diminishing them? What are the effects of AI on artistic creation? Should we revisit the concept of author? Is the future one of co-creation? Join Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and Audrey Borowski for a discussion on the impacts and ramifications of AI on human creativity.
Nicholas Halmi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and Margaret Candfield Fellow of University College, Oxford. His current research is concerned with historical consciousness and historicization in the aesthetic realm, and with cultural periodization. Among his publications is The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (2007). He is completing a book called Historization, Aesthetics, and the Past.
Pireeni Sundaralingam is both a cognitive scientist and an artist. As a poet, Pireeni has held national fellowships in poetry and been published in over 30 literary journals. As a scientist, Pireeni has held research posts at MIT’s and UCLA, researching human decision-making and innovation, and led research at Silicon Valley’s Center for Humane Technology. She has served as Science Advisor to the Irish government’s Minister of Art & Heritage, and as Principal Advisor on Human Potential for a leading UN initiative. As founder of “Neuro-Resilience Consulting”, she leads strategy for a range of global organizations, optimizing for human flourishing and radical innovation.
Audrey Borowski is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her monograph, Leibniz in his World: The Making of a Savant, was published by Princeton University Press in 2024. She was previously a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy and she completed her doctorate (D.Phil) in the History of Ideas at the University of Oxford. Audrey’s current research, and second book project, focuses on the topic of data, algorithmic systems and ideology.
#philosophy #artificialintelligence #ai
05:55 AI’s impact on the human brain
13:45 Two models of creativity
20:50 How different are human and artificial creativity?
29:53 Can AI create art?
37:16 Innovation and cognitive flexibility
40:29 Is creativity a core human need?
44:05 Taste and Kantian judgement
46:32 Is creativity a process or a product?
