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Orlando Wood discusses responsible AI in the creative industries with Oonagh Murphy from Arts Council England.

Why are we using AI? This episode of Technically Creative is brought to you by The Future of Life Insitute, an independent nonprofit working to steer transformative technologies toward benefiting humanity. https://futureoflife.org/ In this episode of Technically Creative, Orlando Wood sits down with Oonagh Murphy, Director of the Responsible AI Academy at Arts Council England, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and former Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, to explore what responsible AI actually looks like for artists, museums, cultural institutions and the creative industries. As generative AI becomes embedded across creative work, Oonagh argues that organizations need to start with a deceptively simple question: not “How can we use AI?” but “Why would we use AI?” That distinction opens up a much bigger conversation about AI ethics, copyright, intellectual property, data, trust, governance and the responsibility creative organizations have to the artists, audiences and communities they serve. Oonagh explains why responsible AI governance can actually make organizations more effective, how Arts Council England developed its approach to AI policy, and…

People in this episode

Host: Orlando Wood

Guest: Oonagh Murphy

Topics covered

• AI
• creativity
• cultural institutions
• responsible AI
• ethics
• governance

Keywords

• AI ethics
• creative industries
• responsible AI
• cultural institutions
• data governance

Sponsors

The Future of Life Institute

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arts Council England, Goldsmiths, University of London, Alan Turing Institute

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