692. What Will A.I. Do to (and for) Human Creativity?

About this episode

Writers, designers, actors, coders, musicians, thinkers — they’re all worried about being replaced by machines. But what if the A.I.s are actually here to help? (Part one of a two-part series.) • SOURCES:• Sean Astin, actor, president of SAG-AFTRA. • Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired. • Ethan Mollick, associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. • Eline Van der Velden, founder and C.E.O. of Particle6. • RESOURCES:• Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, by Ethan Mollick (2026). • "Apocalypse Now and Then," by Arundhati Roy (Equator, 2026). • "Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical Study of Large Language Model-Generated Product Ideas," by Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra, Ethan Mollick, Gideon Nave, and Karl Ulrich (Production and Operations Management, 2026). • "Quiet, My Exoself," by Kevin Kelly (KK, 2026). • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI, by Ethan Mollick (2024). • "The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development," by Michael Kremer (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993). • EXTRAS:• "How to Poison the A.I. Machine," by Freakonomics Radio (2025). • "The Curiou