An artist can spend a lifetime honing their craft. What happens when AI creates art that closely resembles a particular artist or style? This lesson explores the ethical challenges and responsibilities tied to AI-generated artwork. Students will analyze real-world dilemmas involving copyright, consent, bias, and transparency while considering the global impact of AI on artists and cultures. Through debates, scenario analysis, and collaborative activities, students will develop guidelines for ethical AI art creation.

Around the world, artists and regular people are using generative AI models to create new music. Unfortunately, AI poses risks to artists’ creative rights. What is more important: general access to music making or protecting the artists who make music? How can the music industry use AI responsibly? In this lesson, students will craft their own ideas about AI ethics in music, then defend their thinking in a debate.

Generative AI (GenAI) models now write and produce songs according to user preferences, whether they enjoy classical violin or reggaeton or something in between. Can people without access to studios make music with AI? How do these new AI tools interact with the music industry landscape? In this lesson, students will expand their knowledge of the AI-generated music landscape and begin to explore how they can create their own music with AI.

Art has long been a uniquely human form of expression, but what happens when machines begin to create? From surreal portraits to abstract landscapes, AI is generating visual art that is changing our ideas about creativity. In this lesson, students will explore how AI is transforming art generation, examining its processes and how it’s reshaping the future of expression. Students will also examine how generative models, like Firefly, work and assess their global implications.

In this lesson students will explore AI created music and lyrics and compare it to human generated music. Students will analyze how well AI can mimic a genre/artist/song and what potential ethical controversies this could cause in our society. This lesson is used as a springboard for evaluating how AI can have both positive and negative effects and student’s ability to recognize both sides.