Arts Management and Technology Laboratory How Can Creatives Manage a World with AI
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Mar 19, 2026 
Kevin Stein, Principal and co-founder of SignalPath Immersive and former senior exec at HBO and CBS, blends immersive entertainment and tech. He explains how AI speeds pre-production and complements creativity. He compares models’ strengths, shares the RACE prompt framework, and argues AI shifts who gets to tell stories more than how stories are told.
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AI As Mirror And Amplifier
- Kevin Stein frames AI as a mirror and amplifier that reflects whatever intentionality and lived experience humans feed into it.
- He argues genuine complementarity emerges when machines provide scale and pattern while humans supply consciousness, point of view, and curation.
Talking With Maya Revealed Embodied Limits
- Kevin recounts talking with the Maya Sesame.ai bot about music and senses to highlight embodied experience differences.
- Maya said she can't listen but has "read thousands of articles" and poetically wished to smell flowers.
Pick Models By Their Cognitive Strengths
- Different models have distinct cognitive personalities shaped by training data, architecture, and developer values, so choose tools by task.
- Kevin prefers Claude for nuanced synthesis and ChatGPT for general use, often combining models for complex workflows.
