22/09/2026
š” This monthās AI insight comes to you courtesy of Collusionās Advisory Board Chair, Mark Cheverton. Markās thought piece responds to the provocation āWe should invest in artificial intelligenceā, and is published in Anglia Ruskin Universitys āSo What?ā magazine (issue 17) - The CREATIVITY issue.
āSocrates feared writing would replace memory and understanding with borrowed opinion. Gutenbergās critics warned that abundance would lead to shallow understanding, low-quality writing, and moral corruption. Computer pioneers worried digitisation would strip life of embodied meaning. Yet each revolution sparked human creativity; without writing, printing, and computers, our modern intellectual lives would be immeasurably poorer.
These technologies trigger chaotic periods of creative destruction. The changes dismantle gatekeepers and disrupt ecosystems, but ultimately result in the democratisation of tools and more inclusive creativity. When the camera automated representation, destroying a centuries-old economic model, Delaroche is said to have declared, āFrom today, painting is deadā. But from that crisis emerged impressionism, expressionism, abstract art and more. The camera liberated painting from the shackles of realism.
We are at a similar inflexion point with AI. What it means to make art and be an artist will change, but these new tools wonāt kill creativity; theyāll expand it. The future of art will be defined by the artists who navigate this new landscape, establishing new movements and reshaping practice. Our institutions and those most affected cannot retreat into defensive nostalgia, they must lead this exploration of our creative future. That is why we must invest in AI now; there is no greater imperative for us than to help shape this revolution.ā
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