Dr. Tanner Mirrlees's keynote for Hot Docs Teachers Conference on the topic of generative AI and automation in the creative industries and higher education. The keynote focuses on the disruption of the history of human-centered artistic and creative production by generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT and DALL-E) and ethical, philosophical, social and labor questions for teachers and learners. Delivered to an audience of 600 teachers at Ted Rogers Hot Doc Cinema, February 16, 2024.

Table of Contents

00:00 Introduction - Thank you Teachers!
01:15 Chapter 1 - A Very Brief History of Creative Labor and Artistic Production
08:37 Chapter 2 - The Automation of Creativity - Generative AI's Disruption of Anthropocentric Art
18:45 Chapter 3 - A Performance of an Anthropocentric Rebuttal to the Claim that the Artist and Art have been "Killed by AI" (generated by ChatGPT, with PPT slide images, created by DALL-E)
29:34 Chapter 4 - Who Controls AI? GAFAM's AI Ownership and Labor-Saving Technologies (LSTs) in Capitalism
36:08 Chapter 5 - Automating the Creative Class - Contexts, Concerns and Contestation, from Hollywood to the World
40:01 Chapter 6 - Six Societal Responses to Generative AI's Threat of "Technological Unemployment"
42:10 Chapter 7 - 7 Responses to Generative AI's Disruption of Higher Education (by Educators)