creativity

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Can AI be a good creative partner?

11 Dec 2025

What generative AI typically does best – recognise patterns and predict the next step in a sequence – can seem fundamentally at odds with the...

Woman drawing on a tablet with art tools nearby

AI art protection tools still leave creators at risk, researchers say

24 Jun 2025

Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent.

The language of justice

18 Jun 2025

Meet Bhumika Billa: the legal scholar with a poet’s love of language. Her Information Theory of Law pushes our legal systems towards justice and...

Forcing UK creatives to ‘opt out’ of AI training risks stifling new talent, Cambridge experts warn

20 Feb 2025

The UK government’s proposed ‘rights reservation’ model for AI data mining tells British artists, musicians, and writers that “tech industry...

Child-friendly asthma treatment kits designed by pupils who took part in the study

Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds

03 Feb 2021

Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several...

Toddlers, knights and golden bears

23 Mar 2019

Inside the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Armoury and Renaissance galleries are alive with the sound of chattering children. Eyes wide in amazement, noses...

Thinking inside the box

31 Mar 2015

New research into the phenomenon of design fixation – allowing prior experience to blind us to new possibilities – may help in the development of new...

Creative research on musical performance

01 Sep 2009

A pioneering research centre studying live musical performance as creative practice launches in the Faculty of Music in October with funding from the...