Generative AI + Creativity Symposium

World leading faculty experts, researchers, and students explore questions that allow us to peer into the future—imagining our lives in a world where generative AI-enhanced systems and techniques improve the human condition.

• How might combined human + AI systems make more creative, and better decisions than either one alone?
• How can fostering lifelong creativity, using a new generation of tools, methods, and experiences help society
• envision, explore, and implement a more joyful, artful, meaningful, and equitable future?
• How do we make AI legible and trustworthy?
• How can we engage an unprecedented combination of diverse stakeholders to inspire and support creative thinking, expression, and computation empowering all people?

Opening by Program Co-Chairs

• Dava Newman, Professor, MIT Astronautics and Director, MIT Media Lab Director
• John Ochsendorf, Professor, MIT Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design

Welcome

• Mark Gorenberg, Chair of MIT Corporation and Founder and Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners

Panel Discussion 1

• Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture
• Zach Lieberman, Adjunct Associate Professor, MIT Media Arts and Sciences
• Michael Running Wolf, Software Engineer, Founder, Indigenous in AI/ML
• Caroline Running Wolf nee Old Coyote, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Buffalo Tongue, Inc.

Panel Discussion 2

• Pattie Maes, Professor, MIT Media Lab and Head of the MIT Fluid Interfaces Group
• Joshua Bennett, Professor, MIT Literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities
• Pelin Kivrak, Senior Researcher, Refik Anadol Studio