Charting AI Creativity: Law, Economics, and Society
This event is co-organized by The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, the HKU Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, and the HKU AI & Humanity Lab.
Date: May 28, 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Program
Keynote Speeches (13:30 – 14:50) Moderator: Christoph Rademacher, Professor of Law, Waseda University |
Creativity as Data and the Copyright-Privacy Interface Xiyin Tang, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles; Herman Phleger Visiting Professor, Stanford University |
Artificial Inventorship Gideon Parchomovsky, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Chair in Corporate Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania |
A Large-scale Comparison of Divergent Creativity in Humans and Large Language Models Haipeng Shen, Associate Vice-President; Patrick S C Poon Professor in Analytics and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong |
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Panel 1: (14:50 – 15:40) Moderator: Paolo Guarda, Associate Professor, University of Trento |
AI and the Market Dilution Theory of Fair Use Christopher S. Yoo, Imasogie Professor in Law & Technology, University of Pennsylvania |
Super-Creativity: A Structural Solution to the Copyright Singularity Haochen Sun, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong |
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Tea Break (15:40 – 16:10) |
Panel 2: (16:10 – 18:00) Moderator: Brian Tang, Founding Executive Director, Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab, The University of Hong Kong |
Creative Disruption: AI and California’s Creative Economy 2022-2025 Patrick Adler, Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong |
Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap Jie Gong, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong |
AI and the Future of Narrative Virtual Reality Tim Gruenewald, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong |
AI, Creativity, and Ownership in Game Development Jiakun Luo, Research Fellow, Zhejiang University |
To register, please go to https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=106748.
For inquiries, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 39174727.
























