Announcements and updates from the Human-Centered AI Lab and the people connected to it — projects, fellows and alumni, board and directors, publications, grants, and our participation in AI governance and cultural-policy initiatives. For external media coverage, see Press & Media.
The Human-Centered AI Lab contributed to the AI, IP & Culture Repository co-design process, an international civil-society initiative developed in support of UNESCO’s work on AI ethics, intellectual property, cultural rights, and digital cultural sovereignty.
The report, Democratic Infrastructure for Creative Futures: Building the AI, IP & Culture Repository, draws on 23 selected proposals and a multi-stakeholder co-design workshop convening 42 participants from across the arts, cultural policy, civil society, technology, and research sectors. The proposed Repository is envisioned not as a static archive but as a “living governance infrastructure” for knowledge-sharing, cultural-rights protection, and community-driven AI governance.
The Lab’s contribution, “Provenance Infrastructure as a Safeguard for Cultural Commons in the Age of Generative AI,” by Katherine Elkins and Jon Chun, was included among the report’s operational proposals for rights-aware AI training, data provenance, and cultural-data governance.
Raul Romero, Board Member of the Human-Centered AI Lab, is co-founder of Kite ML, a robotics IDE and development platform for applied robotics teams working in physical AI. Kite ML has recently been publicized through startup and robotics-development announcements, including NVIDIA Inception and Founders, Inc. Canopy updates.
Katherine Elkins, Co-Founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab, spoke on the “Artificial Intelligence” panel at the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society’s 2nd Annual Ohio Civics Centers Symposium at The Ohio State University. The panel — which also featured Michael Inzlicht (University of Toronto) and Sean Westwood (Dartmouth College) — examined the challenges AI poses to teaching, research, and civic life.
A recording of the session is available on the Chase Center’s YouTube channel.
A professional-education course created for Bloomberg on integrating AI into organizational workflows.