MLA 2025 Generative AI: Creativity and Harm (guaranteed panel)

deadline for submissions: 
March 22, 2024
full name / name of organization: 
MLA's TC Digital Humanities Forum
contact email: 

Generative AI promises to revolutionize many facets of social and economic life. The creative power of generative machine learning has been held up as a tool that will transform the work of artists and creators. Yet generative models have also been implicated in the unfair use of intellectual property, the propagation of existing social biases, and the facilitation of a wide range of disruptions to an already precarious labor market.

This guaranteed panel will address the ethical issues of generative AI, focusing on the overlap between creativity and harm. How can the literary humanities help foster an ethics for creativity in the age of generative AI?

 

This panel is sponsored by the MLA's forum for the Digital Humanities and will take place at MLA 2025 in New Orleans.

Please send a short bio along with your paper proposal to Avery Slater (avery.slater@utoronto.ca). Paste your submission in the body of the email (no attachments, please).

Your subject line (especially if writing from a non-institutional email such as gmail) should state the title of the panel to avoid getting caught in spam filters. 

Due date: 22 / Mar / 2024