30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?

Fri May 15 2026 at 02:30 pm to 04:30 pm UTC13:00

Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre | Auckland

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30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?
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All Tickets are Mobile Ticket Only. Mobile Tickets are like Print-at-Home tickets but instead of having to print off the tickets yourself, you can just show the barcode on your mobile phone. It is the easiest way to access tickets to your events. For more information visit Ticketmaster.co.nz/mobileticket Child Policy: Children aged under 1 will be permitted free. Provided they do not occupy a seat. Each week brings a new twist in the story of creative expression and intellectual property in the age of AI. Karen Hao, author of the New York Times bestseller Empire of AI; leading NZ author Catherine Chidgey, whose work was among that scraped by Anthropic; and Sam Irvine of Copyright Licensing Aotearoa take stock of where the AI-author relationship stands today, and how writers and readers might navigate the ever-shifting terrain ahead.

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