The Inclusive AI Podcast hosts dialogues with global public and private stakeholders to help build inclusive and sustainable AI systems, with a special focus on the Global South. The CHAIN funded season 1 focuses on how AI is affecting creativity & expression in the Global South. Hosted by Eduardo Briceño-Florez, currently the Director of Strategic Communications at FTI Consulting in Colombia, he mediates conversations between creative AI tech companies, artists and creative based non-profits, and scholars from UU around such topics.

The focus is on the rise of Creatieve AI in the context of the Global South. With AI tools generating works of art based on prompts within minutes or even seconds, do we still think of writers/authors, musicians, photographers etc as creative? When we think of fair creative value, shall we recognize creativity as labor itself and not an end process or an intrinsic attribute? Artisanal communities in Global South countries pass down the knowledge of their traditional arts and crafts through generations. What is the societal, global and economic notions of ownership of these handicrafts designs as they get absorbed in the large language models (LLM’s) of today?

Following a 6 R approach, this Inclusive AI podcast series will focus on Creative AI, particularly with its focus on the absorption, engagement, and mediation of and with creative communities in the Global South in building AI models. The series will ask important questions relevant to those who work in the creative sector by engaging those in the creative industries concerning the Global South, from platform workers, content creators, data feeders, artisanal communities, and heritage activists.

Speakers include experts from Etsy, British council of the Arts, Adobe, Flickr Foundation, and Madhatter Foundation, all consortium members of the Inclusive AI Lab.

Researcher Utrecht University:Prof. dr. Payal Arora