Luncheon: What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Arts

Rick Dakan is the AI coordinator at Ringling College of Art & Design, where he also serves as interim co-director of the new Center for the Creative Economy and Creative Writing faculty. A Sarasota native and proud Pine View alum (1990), Rick worked as a freelance writer, novelist, and game designer from 1995 to 2016 before joining Ringling College. In 2023 he headed the college’s AI task force and went on to oversee the development of its undergraduate certificate in AI and fundamentals of AI for creatives professional certificate course. He also helps organize Ringling College's annual AI and Creative Innovation Symposium, which invites experts, artists, and educators to come together to advocate for artists in the age of AI. In collaboration with Prof. Joseph Feller from the University College Cork in Ireland, he has co-developed the 4D Framework for AI Fluency, which has been adopted by multiple colleges, universities, and businesses around the world. This summer, Rick and Joe worked with the AI company Anthropic to produce a series of free, open education courses on AI Fluency which are available at anthropic.com/ai-fluency.

Luncheons are sponsored by Observer Media Group.

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