How does monetised access to AI impact creativity and research?
CDN Professor II Lai-Tze Fan discusses API economy, limited data access and its effects on humanistic research and artworks.
Main content
Lai-Tze Fan
Lai-Tze Fan is the Canada Research Chair of Technology and Social Change, and an Associate Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies and English Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is Associate Professor II at the Center for Digital Narrative in the University of Bergen, Norway. Fan is the Founder and Director of The U&AI Lab at Waterloo, which uses research-creation methods for enhanced EDI outcomes in AI design. She is also on the Board of Directors of U Waterloo’s TRuST scholarly network, targeting misinformation and trust in AI, and on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.
