US RAO — Regional Arts Organizations CRAIONS — Creativity and AI: A Policy Observatory

Understanding a New Creative Reality

The RAO AI & Creativity Mapping Project is a policy observatory and research initiative by the US RAOs to track how artificial intelligence is reshaping creative work and industries.

It organizes issues and developments in AI policy across an analytical framework of three interconnected systems — attribution, value exchange, and cultural infrastructure. The observatory currently tracks [dev-count] developments across litigation, legislation, regulation, labor agreements, commercial deals, research, and international frameworks. The project has also commissioned three artistic projects that speak to the issues tracked here.

AI is structural change, not simply a technology tool or trend. The three-system framework is a through-line intended to help understand how artificial intelligence is impacting policy across the entire creative ecosystem.

An AI Policy Framework

What's Shifting

— Synthesis Posts

Regulatory Divergence

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Commercial Deals as De Facto Regulation

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Artist Commissions

— Creative Work as Inquiry