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Neither Intelligent, Nor Artificial

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On 10 May 2025 I visited and participated in the NINA festival (Not Intelligent, Not Artificial). The festival was dedicated to thinking about the various uses of AI within the arts.

The talks were fascinating, as were the installations, and I was fortunate enough to perform myself as part of Error 0xHUMAN: System Overdrive.

This music project involves using AI to create music which is performed with a live drummer and human robot. The show aims to raise questions about the human/machine relationship. Where does the machine begin and the human end? Where does art begin and end?

AI is used regularly in music production, but its use to create music that is then performed and released (and used to generate income) brings a host of questions, including about the right to royalties and copyright. Not to mention musicianship, the rights and wrongs of third party creativity, possible job losses within the industry, increased efficiency leading to lower payment for musicians working commercially, the list is long.

And how does it feel to be a musician who performs through AI? And most importantly, what does it sound like?

You can find out by watching the video, and please comment.

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future

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Why not join Bernd Carsten Stahl for the launch of his new Open Access book on Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future on 28 April, at 16:00 CET?

In his new book Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future, An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies, Bernd Carsten Stahl raises the question of how we can we harness the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), while addressing potential ethical and human rights risks?

As many of you will know, this question is shaping current policy debate, exercising the minds of researchers and companies and occupying citizens and the media alike.

The book provides a novel answer. Drawing on the work of the EU project SHERPA, the book suggests that using the theoretical lens of innovation ecosystems, we can make sense of empirical observations regarding the role of AI in society. This perspective allows for drawing practical and policy conclusions that can guide action to ensure that AI contributes to human flourishing.

The one-hour book launch, co-organised by the SHERPA project, Springer (the publisher) and De Montfort University, features critical discussion between author Prof. Bernd Stahl and a high-profile panel featuring Prof. Katrin Amuns, Prof. Stephanie Laulh-Shaelou, Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh, moderated by Prof. Doris Schroeder.

The panel discussion will include a questions and answer session open to members of the audience.

You can find more information about the launch event and register here, and the book can be downloaded here.
If you would like to know more about the author’s work, you can find an introduction to some of his earlier work here.