Season 3, Episode 17: On Generative AI & Intangible Cultural Heritage - A Conversation with Sun Park

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Sun Park, a PhD candidate in Sociology at The University of Warwick who is currently working on a dissertation that explores the evolution of UNESCO's collective knowledge and common heritage of mankind in the age of Generative AI. Before enrolling into the PhD program at Warwick, Ms. Park studied politics at the University of Edinburgh for her BA and obtained an MA with Distinction in International Cultural Policy & Management from the University of Warwick. Prior to that, Ms. Park worked at the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO. In this conversation, Ms. Park discusses both how AI can be used by UNESCO as a tool to carry out its work, especially in the context of perserving Intangible Cultural Heritage efforts.

Academic page: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/park/

Papers:
- Park, S. (2023) The Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Issues, UNESCO ICHCAP ICH Courier, Volume 55, pp. 16-17. Available at: https://ichcourier.unesco-ichcap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ICH-Courier-54high_eng.pdf

- Park, S. (2022) The Ambivalence in the Ambiguity of UNESCO's Cultural Policy Remit: a Structural Description of the Common Heritage of Mankind in the Cultural Diversity Convention, International Journal of Cultural Policy. (open access).

Book Chapters:
- Bell, D. & Oakley, K. (2022) Cultural Policy (Translated from English to Korean by Jo, D. J. & Park, S.). Myung-In Publishers (Original work published in 2015, Routledge)

- Key terms: UNESCO, Generative AI, AI Ethics, Art, Aesthetics