Culture Salon: AI & Digital
Join our Culture Salon: AI & Digital, taking place on 31 October 2024 at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. This debate will be held as part of the Bozar Nocturne series, offering a unique opportunity to explore the intersections of artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and the cultural sector.
Building on the work of the Action Group on AI & Digital, co-facilitated by Culture Action Europe (CAE) and Michael Culture Association (MCA), we aim to continue our discussion on culture-friendly AI development. With the AI Act now in effect and the drafting of the Code of Practice underway, there’s much to explore!
During this event, we will discuss how the cultural sector envisions the implementation of the AI providers’ obligations under the AI Act and outline key principles for ensuring culture-friendly AI development. The Salon will also focus on how the sector can strengthen its agency and benefit from its own cultural data.
Agenda:
18:00-18:15 — Registration
18:15-19:30 — Culture Salon:
- AI Act and Code of Practice: impact on the cultural sector
- Presentation of the survey results and roadmap on AI and Digital by CAE and MCA
- Presentation of the (draft) position paper on AI by CAE and MCA
- Open mic: strategic responses from the cultural sector to AI development
20:00 — Tour of ‘Bozar Arcade: Love and Emotions in Video Games’
Culture Salon: AI & Digital is organised by Culture Action Europe in partnership with Bozar and Michael Culture Association and is co-funded by the European Union.
Context
The EU recently adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act, which came into force on 1 August 2024. This regulation is a gamechanger; it contains several provisions that are directly relevant to the cultural sector, including:
- rights reservation: providers of general-purpose AI models must implement policies to identify and respect rightsholders’ opt-outs from using their data for training AI models;
- transparency obligations: AI providers are required to offer a ‘sufficiently detailed summary’ of the data used to train their models;
- labelling: AI-generated or manipulated content must be clearly labelled by AI providers.
The newly established Artificial Office under the European Commission will facilitate the development of the Code of Practice, a set of recommended good practices for AI providers to help them comply with the AI Act. The Code must be developed by May 2025. Both Culture Action Europe and Michael Culture Association participate in drafting the Code of Practice as part of the iterative process.
Culture Action Europe’s AI & Digital Culture Salon aims to present the AI Act and the drafting process for the Code of Practice through the lens of the cultural sector. We will discuss how the sector envisions the implementation of the AI Act obligations and outline the main principles to ensure culture-friendly implementation of the AI Act. This Culture Salon will focus on how the sector can strengthen its agency and benefit from its own cultural data.