Hunter Heyck Announced as Inaugural Director of OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production

Dr. Hunter Heyck of HSTM will be the inaugural director of the OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production, one of five centers nationwide created through the NEH’s new program supporting humanities perspectives on AI. Dr. Heyck, a leading expert on the history of AI, is one of three co-PIs for the project: the other two are Dr. Kimberly Marshall, Director of OU’s Humanities Forum, and Dr. Peter Froslie, Associate Dean for Research of OU’s School of Fine Arts. The Center will involve twenty faculty drawn from six colleges at OU, bringing together unique interdisciplinary expertise in the arts and humanities to consider major questions and implications of AI, especially generative AI, for cultural production. A core focus will be on how this new set of technologies will affect the relationship between author and audience, challenging our ideas about creativity, authenticity, trust, and ownership of cultural products.