AI and Creativity. What about Agency and Authorship for the World of Intellectual Work?

AI and Creativity. What about Agency and Authorship for the World of Intellectual Work?

Seminar organized by: Tommaso Brighenti, Maria Pompeiana Iarossi, Camilla Lenzi, with the scientific contribution of the DABC PhD Program.

Artificial Intelligence is profoundly transforming the ways knowledge, creativity, and intellectual production are conceived, generated, and circulated. From cultural industries to healthcare, from design practices to legal frameworks, AI is reshaping the relationship between human agency, authorship, and innovation.

The seminar “AI and Creativity. What about Agency and Authorship for the World of Intellectual Work?” brings together scholars and researchers from different disciplines to reflect on the implications of generative AI for contemporary intellectual work. The event will explore the economic, legal, cultural, and social dimensions of AI-driven creativity, questioning how notions such as originality, responsibility, and authorship are evolving in a context increasingly mediated by algorithmic systems.

The seminar opens with an introduction by Maria Pompeiana Iarossi, Camilla Lenzi, and Tommaso Brighenti, followed by four keynote contributions addressing AI from complementary perspectives:

• Marco Guerzoni (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
• Riccardo Perotti (Università Bocconi Milano)
• Jason Vigneri-Beane (Pratt Institute, New York)
• Sara Moccia (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti)

The seminar will conclude with an open discussion aimed at fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on the future of intellectual work in the age of artificial intelligence.

Program

10:00 – Introduction
Maria Pompeiana Iarossi, Camilla Lenzi, Tommaso Brighenti

10:10 – Creativity and AI: from Originality to Plausibility. Why the Real Economic Problem is the Industrialization of the “Likely”
Marco Guerzoni — Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

10:40 – AI and Intellectual Property: Legal Issues Between Input and Output
Riccardo Perotti — Università Bocconi Milano

11:10 – Crypto-Morphology: Gen-AI and Speculative Design
Jason Vigneri-Beane — Pratt Institute, New York

11:40 – Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Creativity as a Mean to Combine Innovation, Self-Determination, and Inclusion
Sara Moccia — Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti

12:10 – Closing discussion