Last week, I had the distinct honor of speaking at a panel entitled ‘AI’s Effect on the Creative Industries’, organized by @AllTechIsHuman and hosted by @CanadaNY. Moderated by @Madhavisingh96 and with co-panelists Rebecca Ross (@creativecommons), Prithy Ahmed(@StandardsCanada), and Sarah Robertson(@DorseyWhitney), we looked at the intersection of Generative AI and its impact on the creative industries. While most of my co-panelists took the copyright enforcement route, I wondered aloud whether the creative industry needs protections beyond copyright, as the issues are multifaceted and go beyond just IP - we as a society are also dealing with AI overreliance, the lack of worker agency when they are forced to use AI tools at work, sometimes to the detriment of output quality for the sake of output volume, loss of artistic identity in AI mediated outputs, and a host of others that artists and creatives in my circle deeply care about. For instance, recent research has shown that it is possible to create competitive language models using public domain data only. The proliferation of copyright-respecting models would not solve the labor impact problem, and I encouraged policymakers and technologists in the room to think about human labor and agency in a holistic fashion that goes beyond IP as a singular tool. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with really cool people in the room and talk about what we are all working on! Go see all the amazing things All Tech Is Human is doing in NYC and beyond :)