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The impact of AI on art and artists, and by extension, on humanity's perception of its creative uniqueness, has been a topic of discussion since AI emerged prominently in recent years.
I've long argued that, paradoxically, AI will serve as a tool to reconnect us with our shared humanity. Or, at the very least, remind us that ‘humanity’ exists at all. In recent decades, a mechanistic mindset has dominated Western thinking; if it can’t be measured, it can’t be managed. And if it can’t be managed, it doesn’t exist. Art, and the pursuit of art, as a healthy societal outlet for curiosity, questioning, and examining the intangible, has been forced to take a back seat.
Thanks to AI, the machines taking over mechanical systems that currently dominate Western political, economic, and philosophical thought will be further entrenched. Yet, at the same time, through its process of reductive reasoning, AI will bring into sharp relief what it means to be holistically human.
This is the challenge for artists in the early 21st century; to interpret the seismic technological changes we as a species are about to undergo in the years to come. The machine makers will again try to convince us that only the machine matters. That there's nothing else except the machine. The job of the artist - as it has always been - is to prove them wrong. As the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin stated: artists are ‘realists of a larger reality’.
We will need human artists’ contemplative guidance more than ever in the years to come as we all enter AI’s grandiose and disorientating Hall of Mirrors.
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