Dr Piotr Mirowski is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where he leads the AI and Society team, driving research on human-centered and participatory AI for creativity. Piotr obtained his PhD in computer science at New York University, supervised by Turing Award winner Prof. Yann LeCun (Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2011) and his research has covered diverse subjects from reinforcement learning and robotics to weather forecasting and human-computer interaction. Piotr authored over 80 papers and patents, including in Nature, and is an established expert in AI for creativity. A trained actor himself, Piotr also founded and directs a theatre company that pioneered improvised comedy with AI and robots, and his creative coding work and critical AI work include numerous collaborations with Zürich University of the Arts and STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw.