Our challenge

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now write short stories, produce artworks, draft business plans, play strategy games like chess or Go (and often better than humans), and solve scientific problems. For that reason, society is confronted with complex questions such as: Can AI be creative? To what extent does AI impact human creativity? What is creativity in the first place and how does it work? AI affords unforeseen creative possibilities. At the same time, AI raises multifaceted sociotechnical questions, ranging from bias, misinformation, and human-machine interaction harms to mass unemployment and a new human self-understanding. Both exploring the potential of AI-powered creativity and finding solutions to the risks it generates requires experimentation and outside-the-box thinking. The seminar enables the participating students to use their collective creativity to identify a challenge at the intersection of creativity and AI and to collaboratively develop an innovative, interdisciplinary solution. The challenge provides a unique learning environment that empowers the participants to acquire not only a theoretical understanding of, but also practical competencies concerning, AI-driven creativity. Moreover, by interacting with a diverse set of external stakeholders, the students gain insights into different domains and industries.