I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.

Concerns around AI and art largely boil down to the fear that AI can reproduce exactly any work that an artist does. Taking any paragraph of text from a writer, an AI could probably write that. It’s the same thing with a given painting or film clip. But if you look closely, this is the same old rationalist concern. It identifies art and its value... See more

What about culture? How different would the future look if current efforts to use AI to replace human cultural outputs were stalled by a renewed affection for our own capacity to create meaning, to tell the world’s stories, to invent new forms of beauty and expression, to elevate and ornament the raw animal experience of living? What if, instead of... See more