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What Creatives Actually Need to Know About AI
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"Both Hands Full" challenges creatives to reject both uncritical AI hype and pure resistance, instead walking forward holding critique in one hand and curiosity in the other.
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Kris Krüg acknowledges the real harms like training on stolen work, collapsing junior pipelines, cognitive dependency while sharing practical workflows that have made him more creative, productive, and powerful than ever.
Both Hands Full - Kris Krüg | Generative AI Tools & Techniques
Keynote: Both Hands Full · Thursday, Jan 22 📸
The core argument: AI is a mirror that amplifies whatever you bring to it, so your "human moat" isn't abstract creativity but judgment, taste, and the ability to articulate what makes your work yours. The talk urges skeptics to engage anyway, because the decisions shaping this technology are being made by whoever shows up.
January 14, 2026 • LaSalle College Vancouver • Art & Design Students • ~60 minutes