AI Literacy Workshop: AI and Pop Culture

Outline of a workshop session which includes description and sample questions for a discussion Padlet. This session was conducted in October 2024 in a hybrid learning environment (online and in-person participants).

Artificial intelligence has had a hold on human imaginations from time immemorial—including robots, androids, cyborgs, and more. 

This session will discuss how AI is being seen in the visual art and other media industries, including things like AI beauty contests, and critically evaluate how these visions of electric sheep and robotics are undercutting the value of human produced work. This is also includes how AI is seen and sold in media, and we will discuss how it’s actually being applied in different contexts. 

This will be a discussion-based workshop. We will have some slides and/or demo a few tools or guides, but we also want to hear from you, the participants, about these topics. Come with your lunch, your questions, and your experiences. 

Learning Objective 1: How AI is being applied in the visual arts and other consumable media

Learning Objective 2: The ways in which AI affects intellectual property rights and copyright