Artist and the Machine sets Dec. 2 Los Angeles summit on AI and creative work

Artist and the Machine will hold its next Los Angeles AI and creativity summit on Dec. 2, bringing together 500 artists, founders and leaders from entertainment, media, technology and artificial intelligence. The event’s agenda will span artist rights and intellectual property alongside AI in Hollywood, immersive entertainment, gaming, music and physical AI.

Adobe is the summit’s presenting creative partner. The programme will close with will.i.am and director Jason Zada discussing how AI is changing the relationship between directors and creative directors as work moves from concept to screen.

Other sessions include a discussion on creativity and artist rights with Michael Nash, Universal Music Group’s chief digital officer; “Humanoid Design,” featuring Dar Sleeper of 1X and Bloomberg Media; and a conversation on experiential worldbuilding with Meow Wolf founder Vincent Kadlubek. Jo Shoesmith of Amazon, Behnaz Farahi of MIT Media Lab, Kelly Boesch and Gossip Goblin are also listed as speakers.

The gathering follows three sold-out Artist and the Machine editions. Grimes headlined the platform’s previous Los Angeles summit, which drew speakers and attendees from technology, entertainment, media and space organisations.

Artist and the Machine will add an invitation-only Studio Day on Dec. 3 at the Audrey Irmas Pavilion. The second day will comprise six creative challenges, salons and hands-on masterclasses intended to move participants from discussion into experimentation and collaboration.

An earlier Artist and the Machine newsletter described Studio Day as the practical counterpart to the summit, with private lunches and a closing Creative Showcase as well as the six sessions. Adobe for Startups, Luma and Artlist are Studio Day partners; the newsletter also listed CapCut among the partners.

The platform has framed the programme against disputes over copyright, training data, artist consent and control over what AI systems learn from creative archives. Those questions reflect a broader creative-sector tension identified by the Harvard Law Review: artists may seek AI’s capabilities while fearing that the technology could replace them. The legal review said copyright doctrine requires human authorship, and that works created entirely by nonhumans are not copyrightable as intentional acts of authorship.

Artist and the Machine operates summits in Los Angeles and New York, the virtual After Hours series and Studio Day, all centred on human-machine collaboration.