Artificial Intelligence: Creativity, Culture, Humans – Anna Goldsworthy

Cultural Policy Futures is a one-year collaboration between the Don Dunstan Foundation and Adelaide University’s Creative People, Products and Places (CP3). Four public events will explore different challenges facing South Australia and Australia, imagining possible futures with a practical, policy-oriented intent.

The series launch will feature Anna Goldsworthy presenting her new Quarterly Essay The God We Made: The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence. How will we be changed by the rise of artificial intelligence? Anna argues that AI is a rupture that makes us confront what it is to be human – what we do, and want. As it learns human ways, AI raises big questions about work, leisure and education. It brings new existential, social and ethical risks. Above all, it invites us to consider what is irreplaceable in us, starting with the body and the friction of others.

We also have Timothy Erik Ström, an independent writer and editor at Arena Publication. Author of Globalization and Surveillance, his next book, Cybernetic Capitalism, will be published by Verso early next year. Drawing on histories of cybernetics, and the political economy of the “Tech Bros”, he will speak about the impact of AI on our very ideas of human culture and meaning-making.