GRIT Labs' AI Policy for Creatives

Can anyone blame artists for viewing AI with fear and apprehension?

- By CARL JAVIER

We’ve all been told that AI and automation are going to fundamentally change the workforce and the nature of jobs.

If almost every other class of worker and industry is being told, “Adapt or die,” the messaging for people in the arts is, “we can’t wait to get rid of you.” Copy writers report losing work already. As do graphic artists. Throw a digital stone and you’ll hit someone on the internet either claiming that we won’t need artists anymore, or that they are artists themselves, thanks to diffusion models. Theater, film, voice actors, musicians, are all feeling threatened.

Artists from different disciplines, teachers, and policy advocates convened on the first of August to begin discussions that will lead to policies that not only protect artists and their creative works, but advance opportunities for artists as we move into an Al-powered world. The discussion was titled “Art in the Age of Algorithms: A Policy Dialogue on AI and the Creative Industries and Culture and Arts” and convened by the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance (UPNCPAG) through the Governance Reform, Innovation, and Transformation Research Laboratories (GRIT Labs) and the Center for Policy and Executive Development (CPED)