MIT Generative AI Week: Creativity Symposium Replay

MIT Generative AI Week reflects our conviction that MIT has a special responsibility to help society come to grips with the tectonic forces of generative AI — to understand its potential, contain its risks, and harness its power for good. Watch the full replay of the Nov. 30 “Generative AI + Creativity Symposium,” chaired by MIT Media Lab's Dava Newman and MIT MAD Founding Director John Ochsendorf.

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Dec 13, 2023

The objective of the MIT Generative AI Week is to spotlight the insights of our MIT researchers, stimulate thoughtful analysis, and engage in critical dialogues on the implications and possibilities of generative AI in our ever-shifting landscape.

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?

Event Replay

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.


Student Lightning Talks 1

Valdemar Danry, Cathy Fang, Pat Pataranutaporn, Vera van de Seyp, Manuel Cherep & Nikhil Singh, Hope Schroeder, Kevin Dunnell, Leticia Izquierdo, Manaswi Mishra, Lingdong Huang, Lancelot Blanchard, Kayla Briët, Serena Bono, Nelson Hidalgo, Shrestha Mohanty, Sarah Ornellas, and Ana Schon, Cassandra Lee


Student Lightning Talks 2

Valdemar Danry, Cathy Fang, Pat Pataranutaporn, Vera van de Seyp, Manuel Cherep & Nikhil Singh, Hope Schroeder, Kevin Dunnell, Leticia Izquierdo, Manaswi Mishra, Lingdong Huang, Lancelot Blanchard, Kayla Briët, Serena Bono, Nelson Hidalgo, Shrestha Mohanty, Sarah Ornellas, and Ana Schon, Cassandra Lee


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