Selfhood in the Era of AI: The Embodied Self and the Creative Process

Presented as part of the Cross-Cultural Approaches to Desirable AI seminar series, co-hosted by the B’AI Global Forum in collaboration with the University of Bonn, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Europe for Applied Sciences.

My talk explored how the embodied self is being reshaped in the age of generative AI, particularly within architecture and design. I examined how creative processes are mediated by tools, technologies, and spatial environments, and how generative AI complicates notions of authorship, authenticity, and human agency. The presentation also reflected on how architects’ engagement with digital and AI-driven methods reconfigures symbolic and psychological dimensions of selfhood in creative practice.

This talk was part of the seminar series that received the AI ELSI Award (Perspective Division) from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) in May 2025, under the title Dialogue for Desirable AI.

▶︎ The videos from the lecture series are available via the link on hover.