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.
A professional-education course created for Bloomberg on integrating AI into organizational workflows.