PLANETARY ARTS WEBINAR: Aesthetic Rights in the AI Era: Arts, Human Agency, and the Governance of Human Experience

Aesthetic Rights in the AI Era: Arts, Human Agency, and the Governance of Human Experience

Overview

Humanity is entering a civilizational transition in which artificial intelligence increasingly shapes not only information and economies, but also perception, identity, representation, and the conditions of human experience itself.

This webinar introduces the concept of aesthetic rights as an emerging framework at the intersection of human dignity, arts and culture, AI governance, and democratic futures.

Bringing together former heads of state, legal scholars, artists, diplomats, and systems thinkers, the dialogue will explore how societies may safeguard human agency, creativity, and meaning-making in technologically mediated environments.

The discussion positions arts and culture not as peripheral domains, but as central civilizational capacities through which societies and communities interpret reality, cultivate ethical imagination, and shape the future of human coexistence.

Key Themes

• Human dignity and agency in AI-mediated societies
• Arts, culture, and the governance of meaning
• Aesthetic rights and democratic futures
• Intercultural dialogue in technologically mediated environments
• Human-centered approaches to intelligent systems
• Collective intelligence and civilizational transformation

Convened and moderated by Ljudmila Mila Popovich