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This podcast involves Gerald Lidstone, ENCATC President, and Leonardo Espinosa Leal, Principal Lecturer in Technology at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, to introduce the topic of Artificial Intelligence in culture by outlining the premises and main features of the phenomenon. The two speakers lead us into a definition of what generative artificial intelligence is and how pervasive it has already become. In the podcast, AI models are particularly described as easy to train systems, to the extent that all fields of human activity are already being touched by this kind of technology.

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This podcast helps to frame the scenario of AI at play in the sector of culture and beyond from a comprehensive point of view, pointing out the extreme complexity of the panorama and encouraging universities and companies to continue embracing the ongoing developments. "Everything that can be digitized, will be digitized", says the speaker Stefan Lindström, Ambassador of Digitalization and New Technologies of Finland, letting the audience immediately grasp the enormous width of the phenomenon. 

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This podcast focuses on the ethical considerations surrounding AI development currently. In the podcast, speaker Oonagh Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship of Goldsmiths, University of London, addresses the key technological innovations that are currently being introduced in the cultural sector, pointing out the necessity for the general public to understand the impact of AI on their experiences and highlighting the key role that artists can play in stimulating consciousness.

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This podcast involves Lluís Bonet, Professor and Director of the Cultural Management Programme at the University of Barcelona, who was awarded the 2023 ENCATC Award for Outstanding Contribution, to address the topic of innovation in cultural management. The podcast particularly stresses the importance of vision and risk-taking among cultural leaders, and the need to sustain management education in the cultural sector, ensuring that innovation is concrete, valuable and cooperative.

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This podcast involves international experts to analyse the impact of AI on the industries of film and music. The speakers taking part particularly illustrate how education on the use of AI within culture is already becoming a structural element of university programmes, and how familiarity with AI systems is going to make a difference in the long run between the survival of certain professional profiles, and the extinction of others. This serves as a powerful remnant of the inescapability of technological advancement in the cultural field, and as a question challenging the sector to include active reflections and technological novelties in cultural industries.

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