How to find humanity's place when AI encroaches on our most

As AI models compete with artists in the narrative, audio, and visual domains, defining the seemingly diminishing role of human creativity is a difficult exercise. How do we project purpose through the exponential slope of technological advancement? For young artists considering their potential futures, is art school a worthwhile investment? For career artists, how do we identify uniquely human expressions and empower our artistic endeavours with these technologies instead of competing with them? And what is the legal canvas upon which this will all play out. This panel, a combination of Artificial Intelligence expert, Arts University Chair, Seasoned Industry Creative Director, and Legal Expert will debate the rapidly unfolding world as AI promise reveals AI peril. We visit the challenges that programs face in addressing the needs of future artists (where the future changes in less than the time a student can complete a program). We discuss successful projects in industry as advancements increasingly minimize complex workflows to simple multi modal prompts. And we debate how to protect expression and survive a technology that incrementally ingests novelty. Finally, beyond the creative domain, we discuss whether art is uniquely jeopardized or is just the canary in the coalmine. Will we all ultimately be challenged with a search for purpose in a world of reasoning AI.