Hear experts on artificial intelligence, advocates of pro-artist AI regulation, and labor activists discuss the impact of generative AI, and outline how musicians and other creative workers can protect our livelihoods and art forms through union, legal, and legislative action. Discussion will follow, with time to ask questions and contribute to the ongoing conversation.
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Panelists:
Lauren M.E. Goodlad is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, chair of the Critical AI interdisciplinary initiative based at Rutgers, and the editor of Critical AI, an online journal published by Duke University Press. A specialist in teaching critical AI literacies, Goodlad has discussed the topic in numerous essays, podcasts, and presentations. For an example of her writing on generative AI, see the essay "Now the Humanities Can Disrupt 'AI'," co-authored with Samuel Baker (Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin). At Rutgers, she is Project Director of Design Justice Labs, an NEH-supported project focused on developing international resources and tools for educators and others devoted to teaching critical AI literacies;
Brian Merchant is the author of Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023: Little, Brown) and The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017; Little, Brown). He was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times, a senior editor at Vice Media's technology-journalism channel Motherboard (RIP) and a co-founder of VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform;
Kevin Erickson is Executive Director of the musicians advocacy organization Future of Music Coalition;
Marc Ribot, guitarist/bandleader, has recorded with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, and many others, and produced 27 of his own recordings. He is a founding member of Music Workers Alliance, Indie Musicians Caucus of the AFM, Artist Rights Alliance (formerly Content Creators Coalition [C3]), and Local 802/American Federation of Musicians's "Winter Jazz Festival Organizing Committee".
Moderator:
Jerome Harris, bass guitarist/guitarist; president of Music Workers Alliance and member of Indie Musicians Caucus of the AFM; see https://www.local802afm.org/allegro/articles/artificial-intelligence-5/.
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Sponsored by Indie Musicians Caucus of the AFM and Music Workers Alliance