By: David Thompson
Art schools have spent the past two years bolting AI onto existing curricula: an elective here, a workshop there, a disclosure policy for assignments. Academy of Art University is trying something more structural. The San Francisco institution has launched a Master of Fine Arts in AI-Driven Creative Practice, a 60-unit graduate degree that treats AI competency not as an add-on skill but as the organizing framework for an entire program, one built to end in a business pitch rather than a thesis show.














