Creativity versus Automation: Towards the Last Frontier, and With our Jobs on the Line?

Jan Løhmann Stephensen

doi:10.5840/bjp20231516

Creativity versus Automation: Towards the Last Frontier, and With our Jobs on the Line?

School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture

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Abstract

Recently, heated discussions about artificial intelligence, creativity, and work have re-emerged. Despite the dominant focus on the novelty of this entanglement, it is rich with history. In this paper, I will first introduce creativity as a historical and socio-culturally embedded concept, looking at how and why we have invented creativity in the guises we have. The focus will mostly be on the political and ideological backdrop of these historical processes–for instance how creativity was repeatedly cast as the positive counterimage of (industrial and bureaucratic) alienated labour, and hence stood in a complex relationship to automation, robotization, and so on. Based on this I will then discuss a series of scenarios that are related to the (perhaps) forthcoming automation of creativity, more specifically four ways in which automation might in different ways impact (the fields of) creative practices and labour.

Original language	English
Journal	Balkan Journal of Philosophy
Volume	15
Issue	1
Pages (from-to)	41-52
ISSN	1313-888X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5840/bjp20231516
Publication status	Published - 2023

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