2025.9.17 陳昱璋報告 Intelligent Instruments in Citizen Science

Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly human-like and it is now proficient in a key human activity: musical creativity. But what does this mean? How does creative AI change our notions of art, culture, and society? These are the questions that the Intelligent Instruments Lab explores through practice-based research and critical reflection in the experimental humanities. As new machine learning technologies begin to mirror ourselves, we need to look into that mirror and ask how this is changing us.

We study new AI by using music as a platform. In a range of research projects, we develop instruments with creative AI, explore human-AI collaboration in music, and frame sonic instruments as scientific instruments. Grounded equally in technology development and the humanities, we engage with diverse disciplines by developing a theoretical framework of creative AI, initiating a discourse around human-centred creative AI, and defining principles of human-AI relations in services and products.

Our aim is therefore to work in the public eye, to keep our lab open, and to disseminate our work as it happens. We seek public engagement and investment in the research program, as our research is relevant to the questions people are asking already, and to place the lab as a social hub where these questions could be explored in a safe, welcoming, and open intellectual environment. Through the broad reach of music in society, we reach the general public and conduct citizen science with people in a field that people understand and engage with from a personal, emotional, and intellectual manner. This is how we can ask our questions, explore the new ideas that are emerging, analyse the language and discourse, and be part of shaping how we understand creative AI in this unique historical moment.