OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production

FAIN: RAI-301463-24

University of Oklahoma, Norman (Norman, OK 73019-3003)
Hunter Heyck (Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Kimberly Jenkins Marshall (Co Project Director: August 2024 to present)
Pete Froslie (Co Project Director: August 2024 to present)

Establishing a humanities research center at the University of Oklahoma on generative AI and the meaning of creativity, authenticity, and appropriation. (36 months)

We propose an OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production. Our goal is to create and sustain means for collaboration regarding the meaning of generative AI for artistic and cultural experience. While AI enables new modes of expression, it can destabilize the relationship between author and audience, raising questions about the nature and purpose of human creative expression. What does generative AI mean for such moments of creation? What does it mean for our ideas and practices regarding truth, trust, power, and belonging? This Center will explore these questions with special attention to their implications for Native American cultural sovereignty. Our Center will bring together experts from across the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields to catalyze research on crucial topics, such as trust, authenticity, and relationality, through a linked set of research teams, interdisciplinary conferences and associated edited volumes, and marquee public speakers.