Cultural AI is the study, design and development of socio-technological AI systems that are implicitly or explicitly aware of the subtle and subjective complexity of human culture.

It is as much about using AI for understanding human culture as it is about using knowledge and expertise from the humanities to analyse and improve AI technology. It studies how to deal with input and output data in the context of the intended (or other) application areas, how to deal with cultural bias in data and technology and how to build AI technology that is optimised for cultural and ethical values.

Cultural AI is an initiative driven by:

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
KNAW Humanities Cluster
Nationale Bibliotheek
Rijksmuseum
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam
Each and every one of the objects in our collection tells a human story. Stories that embody universal themes such as celebration, mourning, decoration, prayer, love and conflict. Themes that all have one thing in common: they show that despite our d