Every debate about "AI creativity" asks the wrong question.
It's not: "Can AI create art?"
It's: "Can AI exist within cultural time, accumulate embodied suffering, have genuine stakes, and care about outcomes?"
My new paper - "The Question of Cultural Innovation in the Age of AI"
- exams why AI cannot—and should not try to—replicate human cultural innovation. The paper uses case studies from Dostoevsky to Duchamp, Joyce to Kubrick, Van Gogh to Pearl Jam to show that breakthrough works emerge from irreducibly human conditions: temporal positioning within cultural flow, decades of embodied practice, aesthetic judgment from lived experience.
The productive path forward? Gain-of-function AI that amplifies human creative capacity—not by replacing judgment but by:
• Reducing cognitive barriers
• Accelerating iteration
• Democratizing tools
• Preserving what makes innovation human
More voices. More perspectives. More abundantly human culture.
The full paper can be found at The Question of Cultural Innovation in the Age of AI
It's not: "Can AI create art?"
It's: "Can AI exist within cultural time, accumulate embodied suffering, have genuine stakes, and care about outcomes?"
My new paper - "The Question of Cultural Innovation in the Age of AI"
- exams why AI cannot—and should not try to—replicate human cultural innovation. The paper uses case studies from Dostoevsky to Duchamp, Joyce to Kubrick, Van Gogh to Pearl Jam to show that breakthrough works emerge from irreducibly human conditions: temporal positioning within cultural flow, decades of embodied practice, aesthetic judgment from lived experience.
The productive path forward? Gain-of-function AI that amplifies human creative capacity—not by replacing judgment but by:
• Reducing cognitive barriers
• Accelerating iteration
• Democratizing tools
• Preserving what makes innovation human
More voices. More perspectives. More abundantly human culture.
The full paper can be found at The Question of Cultural Innovation in the Age of AI
Keywords: gain-of-function, artificial intelligence, cultural innovation, innovation, ethics, agi, ai
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