Automation Anxiety: AI and Creativity
In recent years, we’ve seen that artificial intelligence is capable of creating art worthy of being shown at a mainstream gallery; we’ve seen their paintings get auctioned off by Christie’s for a whopping $432,500, and we’ve read their award-finalist novel about the day a robot decided to start writing (Who wouldn’t want to read that?). These new advances in creative automation create a unique type of “Automation Anxiety” that places the worth of human creativity at its center – If AI can create art, then what remains of our value as conscious, intelligent beings?
