AI, Art, Culture & Society
Will Selviz and Manuel Sainsily shared their innovative use of AI, XR, and immersive media to preserve cultural heritage, promote inclusive creativity, and explore new storytelling paradigms. Through their collaborative project “Protopica,” they demonstrated how tools like Sora, ImageGen, and GPT-4 can empower global youth, democratize access to emerging technologies, and showcase the positive impact of AI on art, culture, and education. Their work exemplifies how AI can drive shared prosperity, enhance public engagement, and foster a globally inclusive creative ecosystem.


Manuel Sainsily & Will Selviz · Apr 7th, 2025
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Marion Carre, Valentin Schmite & Martin Signoux · Mar 20th, 2025
The discussion featured Marion Carre and Valentin Schmite, co-founders of Ask Mona, alongside OpenAI's AI policy lead, Martin Signeux. The conversation explored the intersection of AI and culture, particularly how AI can enhance museum experiences, democratize knowledge, and expand accessibility to cultural heritage. Ask Mona has been using AI for nearly a decade, well before AI became mainstream, to create interactive, personalized experiences for museum visitors. The company’s work spans major cultural institutions like the Louvre and the Center Pompidou, as well as educational applications.
The discussion also touched on broader themes, including AI’s role in creativity, how AI is evolving, and the ethical considerations in using AI for knowledge-sharing. Concrete examples, such as AI-powered interactive guides in museums, augmented school books, and "smart magnets" that enable conversations with historical figures, highlighted the impact of AI in making culture more engaging. Additionally, the conversation addressed AI’s ability to facilitate trust in cultural institutions and how AI could play a role in education beyond traditional settings.


Kate Rouch & David Droga · Mar 13th, 2025
The webinar, opened by Natalie Cone, the community architect of the OpenAI Forum, highlighted its inception in 2023 to bring together experts across disciplines to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The Forum has since enabled rich dialogues among Nobel laureates, Turing Award winners, and over 10,000 other experts, shaping the future of OpenAI's technologies. The session featured David Droga, CEO of Droga5 (part of AccentureSong), and Kate Rouch, Chief Marketing Officer at OpenAI, discussing the creative process behind OpenAI's inaugural television advertisement, which premiered during the Super Bowl.
Kate emphasized AI as the transformative technology of our era, recounting her journey from leading global marketing at Coinbase, including a viral Super Bowl ad, to OpenAI, where she focuses on making AI accessible and inspiring. Her extensive experience at Meta, where she contributed to its massive user growth, underpins her expertise in global brand building. David reflected on his career from his early days in advertising in Sydney to founding Droga5, known for its creative and technologically savvy campaigns. He discussed his belief that creativity must be amplified by technology, evident in how Droga5’s campaigns have effectively combined creative boldness with technological innovation.
A significant part of the conversation focused on the synergy between creativity and AI, with both speakers endorsing the power of AI to enhance, not replace, human creativity. They discussed how AI tools could democratize and expand creative processes, making them more inclusive. The dialogue also touched on maintaining authenticity in advertising, especially in high-stakes environments like the Super Bowl, advocating for ads that resonate with the brand’s core values rather than conforming to typical advertising clichés.
The webinar concluded with insights into OpenAI’s future initiatives, emphasizing integrity and authenticity in communications and innovations. Natalie Cone wrapped up the session by thanking the speakers for their insights, reflecting on the productive discussion that not only illuminated OpenAI's advertising strategies but also the broader implications of AI in creative industries. This session was part of OpenAI’s broader effort to engage the public and experts in meaningful conversations about the future of AI and its societal impact, showcasing how strategic and thoughtful advertising can effectively communicate the transformative potential of AI.



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Christine McLeavey, Ivan Linn, Carol Reiley & 6 more speakers · Mar 12th, 2025
At an event hosted by Natalie Cone, community architect of the OpenAI Forum, attendees celebrated the forum's impressive growth from 200 to 10,000 members through an evening rich with musical performances and insightful panel discussions highlighting the symbiosis of AI, music, and creativity.
The evening opened with "Ode to the Sun and Moon," a collaboration between Wavv, an AI music startup led by Ivan Linn, and NASA. This performance transformed astronomical data from the 2024 solar eclipse into a mesmerizing musical piece, performed by Ivan Linn and Jess Chang from OpenAI, setting a high bar for the fusion of art and science. Another standout was Richard Reed Perry's "Music for Heart and Breath," produced by Carol Reiley, where the music was intricately conducted by Reiley's own heartbeats, illustrating the profound integration of human biological elements with musical artistry. This performance featured the talented Daniel Stewart and In Sun Jang, enhancing the composition with their skilled interpretations. Adding a layer of interactive neuro-technology to the evening, Tony Jebara, VP of Engineering, Head of AI/ML at Spotify, wore an Emotiv headset that displayed his brainwave responses in real time. Emphasizing this integration, Kim Old from Emotive elaborated on the advancements in neurotechnology, particularly its application in enhancing musical performances through brain-computer interfaces.
The "Music is Math" panel discussion further delved into the interconnectedness of musical creativity and mathematical principles. The panel included insights from Ivan Linn and Carol Reiley, who shared how AI is transforming creative industries, and Greg Schmidt from NASA, who spoke on the potential of technology and space exploration to inspire future musical innovations. The panel was adeptly facilitated by Christine McLeavy from OpenAI’s Exploratory Audio Research Team, who steered the conversation towards exploring how AI is not just complementing but also revolutionizing traditional musical composition, thereby underscoring the forum's commitment to nurturing a community where technology and creativity converge to push the boundaries of what art and science can achieve together.


David Autor & Tyna Eloundou · Mar 12th, 2025
About the Talk: Much of the value of labor in industrialized economies derives from the scarcity of expertise rather than from the scarcity of labor per se. In economic parlance, expertise denotes a specific body of knowledge or competency required for accomplishing a particular objective. Human expertise commands a market premium to the degree that it is, first, necessary for accomplishing valuable objectives, and second, scarce, meaning not possessed by most people. Will AI increase the value of expertise by broadening its relevance and applicability? Or will it instead commodify expertise and undermine pay, even if jobs are not lost in net. Autor will present a simple framework for interpreting the relationship between technological change and expertise across three different technological revolutions. He will argue that, due to AI’s malleability and broad applicability, its labor market consequences will depend fundamentally on how firms, governments, NGOs, and universities (among others) invest to develop its capabilities and shape its applications.
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Sarah Friar, Romain Huet, Julie Lavet & 4 more speakers · Mar 12th, 2025
On Thursday, November 14, 2024, OpenAI celebrated the grand opening of its first office in Paris, marking a milestone as its first office in mainland Europe. The event highlighted France's growing prominence as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and showcased OpenAI’s commitment to contributing to the local ecosystem.



Saffron Huang, Divya Siddarth & Lama Ahmad · Mar 11th, 2025
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AI will have significant, far-reaching economic and societal impacts. Technology shapes the lives of individuals, how we interact with one another, and how society as a whole evolves. We believe that decisions about how AI systems behave should be shaped by diverse perspectives reflecting the public interest. Join Lama Ahmad (Policy Researcher at OpenAI) and Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth (Co-Directors of the Collective Intelligence Project) in conversation to reflect on why public input matters for designing AI systems, and how these methods might be operationalized in practice.
The Collective Intelligence Project White Paper: The Collective Intelligence Project (CIP) is an incubator for new governance models for transformative technology. CIP will focus on the research and development of collective intelligence capabilities: decision-making technologies, processes, and institutions that expand a group’s capacity to construct and cooperate towards shared goals. We will apply these capabilities to transformative technology: technological advances with a high likelihood of significantly altering our society.
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Claudia von Vacano · Aug 30th, 2024
The Data Science for Social Justice Workshop (DSSJ), organized in partnership between UC Berkeley’s Graduate Division and D-Lab, is an 8-week program aiming to provide an introduction to data science for graduate students, grounded in critical approaches of data feminism, data activism, ethics, and critical race theory. Attendees receive training in natural language processing and leverage their skills to conduct discourse analysis on social media data in an interdisciplinary project. This workshop, about to conclude its third year, has trained over 75 graduate students across 20 disciplines. These students form a community of interdisciplinary scholar-activists who uphold a values-driven approach to data science and machine learning.
In this event, Claudia von Vacano, Ph.D., Executive Director of D-Lab, introduces the Data Science for Social Justice Workshop, highlighting its goals, structure, and outcomes. Then, three students who have participated in the workshop – with diverse and rich personal and academic backgrounds – present lightning talks on their experience with DSSJ, highlighting their personal journeys, the projects they worked on, and what they gained from the workshop. The event will conclude with a Q&A and discussion on how workshops like DSSJ present novel opportunities to train a generation of interdisciplinary, diverse data-driven scientists who center values and social justice at the forefront of their work.
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Nathan Chappell, Dupé Ajayi, Jody Britten & 5 more speakers · Jun 24th, 2024
The session featured several nonprofit organizations that utilize AI to drive social impact, emphasizing their long-standing involvement with the community. The discussion was facilitated by Nathan Chappell, a notable figure in AI fundraising, and included insights from a diverse group of panelists: Dupe Ajayi, Jodi Britton, Allison Fine, Anne Murphy, Gayle Roberts, Scott Rosenkrans, and Woodrow Rosenbaum.
Each speaker shared their experiences and perspectives on integrating AI into their operations, illustrating AI's transformative potential in various sectors. The event highlighted the importance of AI in amplifying the efficiency and reach of nonprofit initiatives, suggesting a significant role for AI in addressing global challenges. The conversation also touched on the ethical considerations and the need for responsible AI use, ensuring that technological advancements align with human values and contribute positively to society.
This gathering not only served as a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences but also fostered networking among community members with similar interests in AI applications. The dialogue underscored the critical role of AI in future developments across fields, advocating for continued exploration and adoption of AI technologies to enhance organizational impact and effectiveness.
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Teddy Lee, Kevin Feng & Andrew Konya · Apr 22nd, 2024
As AI gets more advanced and widely used, it is essential to involve the public in deciding how AI should behave in order to better align our models to the values of humanity. Last May, we announced the Democratic Inputs to AI grant program. We partnered with 10 teams out of nearly 1000 applicants to design, build, and test ideas that use democratic methods to decide the rules that govern AI systems. Throughout, the teams tackled challenges like recruiting diverse participants across the digital divide, producing a coherent output that represents diverse viewpoints, and designing processes with sufficient transparency to be trusted by the public. At OpenAI, we’re building on this momentum by designing an end-to-end process for collecting inputs from external stakeholders and using those inputs to train and shape the behavior of our models. Our goal is to design systems that incorporate public inputs to steer powerful AI models while addressing the above challenges. To help ensure that we continue to make progress on this research, we have formed a “Collective Alignment” team.
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Daniel Miessler & Joel Parish · Jan 30th, 2024
In this talk, Meissler shared his philosophy for integrating AI into all facets of life. He highlighted a framework built for leveraging custom prompts as APIs, as well as demonstrated several specific use cases that the speaker hopes will resonate with OpenAI Forum members and translate across disciplines and professional domains.
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