Can AI make art? Should it? What happens to human artists and human audiences when algorithms influence the way art is conceived and consumed? Join acclaimed songwriter and performer Emily Scott Robinson and novelist and former AI ethics insider Jenny Williams for a deep discussion of the impacts AI is already having on creative practice, labor, and industries, along with impassioned hopes for the future—interspersed with songs and readings from these two artists’ body of work (100% human-made). 

Jenny Williams is the author of House of Liars, a new literary psychological thriller about AI, creativity, and motherhood, as well as the novel The Atlas of Forgotten Places (St. Martin’s Press) and the novella A Short Future History of Whales (Spotify Audiobook Selects). She spent eight and a half years at Google and Microsoft working on AI ethics, content design, and research on creativity and AI. A former Ridgway resident, she currently works as a researcher and writer in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Emily Scott Robinson is an internationally-touring singer and songwriter signed to John Prine's label Oh Boy Records. Lauded by NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Colorado Public Radio, and the Washington Post, Robinson recently released her fifth album Appalachia to critical acclaim and six weeks at the #1 spot on the Folk radio charts. "Colorado singer-songwriter Emily Scott Robinson mixes folk and country with gorgeous, clear-eyed examinations of faith, hope and regret." - NPR