Investigating how AI transforms the conditions, politics, and value of creative work
The Lab for AI, Ethics, & Creative Labor investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions, practices, and politics of creative work across art, design, writing, and adjacent fields. We study the ways AI systems restructure labor, reshape professional identities, and reconfigure relationships between authorship, skill, and value in creative industries, from independent practitioners to institutional workflows.
We advance this work through research, experimentation, and coalition building: partnering with creative communities and industry organizations to conduct studies on AI's social, cultural, and economic impacts; developing experimental tools and methods that enable artists, designers, technologists, and scholars to critically engage AI systems; and build coalitions to collectively shape emerging norms around labor, authorship, and the production of creative knowledge.
Coalition Building
Convening events, lead workshops, curate exhibitions, and organize symposiums about AI creative labor
Research
Researching AI and its use in creative industries
Experimentation
Providing resources to help creatives adapt to AI-driven futures
We investigate how AI transforms the conditions, politics, and value of creative work.
