CREAI 2022 - Preface to the First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained increasing popularity in the area of art creation, by demonstrating its great potential. Research in this topic has developed AI systems able to generate creative outputs in fields such as music, painting, games, design and scientific discovery, either autonomously or in collaboration with humans. Therefore, AI also helped to analyze and study the mechanisms of creativity from a broader perspective: from the socio-anthropological to psychological, as well as cognitive impact of the autonomous creative processes of artificial intelligence. These advances are leading to new opportunities research perspectives, while also posing challenging questions related to authorship, integrity, bias and evaluation of AI artistic outputs. CREAI, the workshop on AI and creativity, tries to address these research lines and aims to provide a forum for the AI community to discuss problems, challenges and innovative approaches in the various sub-fields of AI and creativity.