VANISHING ICONS AI/CC Global Awareness & Impact Challenge | October 2026 Some species have lived beside us for thousands of years — and are now moving dangerously close to extinction. Others have already disappeared. For our first AI/CC Global Awareness & Impact Challenge, we invite our creative community to use generative art and filmmaking to bring attention to endangered, critically endangered, or recently extinct species. Launching around World Rhino Day, September 22, and World Gorilla Day, September 24, VANISHING ICONS begins with two extraordinary species but opens a much wider conversation about biodiversity loss and the animals we may be at risk of losing. THE CHALLENGE Choose one endangered, critically endangered, or recently extinct animal species. Create an original AI-assisted artwork or short film that gives visibility to the species, its story, the threats it faces, or what its disappearance would mean. Your interpretation can be emotional, conceptual, documentar...