Nevertheless, Creativity Survives

Creation is a human instinct. AI is both enabling and threatening creativity. History suggests that human art will endure. We have a choice: to use AI to erase or to extend creativity.

Before we talk about the future of creation, I want to talk about its past.

Poetry was perhaps our original expressive creation: indeed, it is from the Ancient Greek verb ποιεῖν (phonetically: poiein), “to create,” that we get our modern English word “poetry.” Before we had writing, we had poetry. Rhythm followed our heartbeats, rhyme echoed our voices,…