AI & Culture

Introduction The 2023 Hollywood strikes were the longest and most consequential labor action the entertainment industry had seen in decades. The Writers Guild of America walked out in May; SAG-AFTRA joined in July. Together, they shut down the production of scripted film and television for 148 days. The core issues were familiar ones — residuals, minimum staffing — but the new and defining issue was AI. What the writers and actors were fighting about, at its core, was whether

Introduction Generative AI is the latest wave to hit music. And unlike its predecessors, it doesn't just change the distribution of music. It changes the creation of it. A person with no musical training can now type a sentence and receive a professionally-produced full song in seconds. That capability is already on streaming platforms. Whether it's legal, ethical, or both is being answered in real time in courtrooms, boardrooms, and the streets. The Legal Landscape Universal

AI-powered NPCs are transforming video games from scripted characters into responsive digital participants that learn, adapt, and evolve alongside players. Introduction For most of gaming's history, the non-player character, the NPC, has been a kind of furniture. A vendor who says the same three lines. A guard who patrols a fixed route. An enemy who follows a predictable script. The NPC existed to populate the world, to give the player something to react to, but it wasn't a p