AI-created heritage and its relationships with cultural rights

Inês de Carvalho Costa

doi:10.14568/cp35996

Authors

Inês de Carvalho Costa Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal; Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space, Memory», Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564, Porto, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8851-828X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14568/cp35996

Keywords:

Accessibility, Artificial intelligence, Copyrights, Ethics, Human rights

Abstract

With the exponential growth of Artificial intelligence (AI), the heritage field must reflect upon a set of unclear opportunities, challenges, and risks. By proposing and testing the concept of “AI-created heritage”, we aim to identify the connections between AI, heritage, and human rights, more precisely, cultural ones. Our methodology encompasses the state of the art, the clarification of conceptual and normative frameworks, and the analysis of international examples raising hopes and concerns around accessibility, copyrights, and ethics. The selection of examples will follow three criteria: mediatic impact, pertinence, and novelty. Guided by the principles of “future-thinking”, this approach contributes to broaden the debate about the development of ethical guidelines and cultural rights in the face of upcoming AI-dominated scenarios.

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