Workshop: Is Generative AI creative?

Bringing together perspectives from science and philosophy

👋 Welcome to the workshop on Generative AI and creativity , where we will discuss to what extent modern generative artificial intelligence is creative. We will bring together a diverse group of experts from the sciences and humanities in Trieste from July 3rd-5th, 2025 -- come join us! In addition to the invited and contributed talks and ample time for discussions, we will also have an artistic event that involves some generative AIs -- details to follow soon!

For more information about the themes of the workshop, see our description here.

Note that our workshop will be followed by Youth in high dimensions, a workshop on recent progress in the theory of machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, and inference.

Location

The workshop will take place in the Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH) of the Adriatico Guest House Riva Massimiliano e Carlotta, Grignano I -- 34151 Trieste (Italy). The simplest way to reach the Guest House from downtown Trieste is via bus, taking the line 6 that runs through the whole city.

Invited speakers

The event will be animated by a fantastic set of speakers.

Larissa Berger (Uni Siegen)
Alessandro De Cesaris (Università di Torino)
Alice Barale (Università di Milano)
Alexandra Gilliams (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Roberto Trotta (SISSA)
Alex Darmon (Art in Research)
Francesco Cagnetta (SISSA
Mason Kamb (Stanford)

Organisers

Lorenzo Bardone (SISSA)
Sebastian Goldt (SISSA)
Elisa Gremmo (Unipd)
Matteo Marsili (ICTP)
Fabiola Ricci (SISSA)
Gabriele Tomasi (Unipd)

Funding

We thank the The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the European Research Council, the University of Padova, and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Natural and Humanities at SISSA for their generous financial and logistic support of the workshop.