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The Institute for Creativity and AI invites you to its public launch, which will take place at the Bayes Business School on the 9th October. The Institute has been established by City St George’s, University of London to explore two increasingly connected phenomena – creative thinking and AI. The launch will be relevant to organisational leaders, business professionals, academics and students with interests in these phenomena and their roles in innovation and the changing nature of work.
Our Institute is committed to fostering new collaborations. It is a space where ideas can be exchanged, partnerships formed, funding sought, and positive change delivered. So, attend the launch if you want to:
- Learn more about new AI technologies that augment creative thinking at work
- Discover cutting-edge research that explores the impact of AI on creative work
- Connect with academics and researchers working in this space
- Exchange ideas about current challenges and new opportunities
- Build new partnerships to produce more effective and acceptable forms of creative AI
- Collaborate to acquire funding – the Institute will facilitate and lead large interdisciplinary funding bids to research and influence the future of creative work in the presence of AI technologies
- Deliver change that support professionals to be more creative in their work in sustainable ways
Launch event schedule:
Welcome introduction from Prof. Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng, President of City St George’s University of London
Keynote speaker, Dr Richard Banks, Principal Design Manager, Microsoft Research UK, delivering the keynote ‘AI as a Tool for Thought’
A presentation of the Institute, its work and opportunities – Professor Neil Maiden, Director of the Institute for Creativity and AI
A panel discussion exploring creative work and the potential impact of AI, both positive and negative, in different professions, with Institute members from different schools at City St George’s:
Panel chair: Dr Sara Jones, Bayes Business School
Panelists:
Professor Charles-Baden-Fuller, Bayes Business School
Professor Francesca Strumia, Law School
Dr Lea Hellmueller, School of Communication and Creativity
Professor Eduardo Alonso, School of Science and Technology
The Institute for Creativity and AI
Everyday uses of generative AI technologies are changing professional work – changes that will increase as these technologies evolve. One of the most profound changes is in creative work. Studies already show that generative AI use by designers, writers and management consultants has increased the novelty and value of their outputs. The potential for this everyday creative thinking in other professions, from legal and finance to health and social care, is enormous, and stretches beyond the creative industries.
However, this growing reliance on AI for creative thinking and problem solving has downsides, from deskilling to reframing what it is to be a professional in the presence of such technologies. Future challenges will be cognitive, social, economic and political, as well as technological.
The Institute will be a new space in which to research and explore these challenges. It will involve academics and students from all City St George’s schools. Its three strategic aims are at:
- Understand creative work in the presence of AI technologies and the challenges that professionals face
- Research and develop new forms of co-creative AI technologies to augment creative work across professions
- Investigate the wider impacts of co-creative AI technologies on the future of different professions
To achieve these aims, the Institute is wilfully interdisciplinary, and involves academics and students from all City St George’s schools – from business and technology to health, the arts and policy.
The Institute will also be outward facing, working closely with funding bodies, businesses and other types of organisations to understand the new challenges posed by AI technologies offer innovative solutions.
And its remit is broad. Creative work can happen in any sector that requires everyday creative thinking and problem solving.
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