The Cultural Diplomacy Study Group, fall 2026; session thre.
As AI systems increasingly learn from and create with the world’s cultural heritage, we’ll ask what that means for authorship, ownership, cultural identity, and human creativity itself. We’ll also take up a larger cultural diplomacy question: how can these technologies expand cultural access and exchange while protecting the diversity of human creativity and cultural memory, rather than flattening it?
Guest Speakers:
Margaret Murphy is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Washington, DC area who works across photography, collage, and AI. Her work explores nostalgia, femininity, and identity as they relate to the internet, social media, and technology, and has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. She has also photographed for The New York Times.
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Nicole Primmer is Deputy Executive Director, Policy and Strategic Engagement at Business at OECD, where she oversees digital policy, education, and taxation and fiscal affairs. She has been with Business at OECD since 2000 and holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. She is also an accomplished lyric soprano.