AI makes you more creative, AI Roundtable with Steven Johnson and Grant Lee | E2231

There's a group of people that you've been talking to, Stephen, that are resisting it, creative specifically. And maybe we could unpack why you think some folks are saying, I I don't want to introduce anything digital here. What had been striking for me in the last couple of weeks, just over the break, was I had a couple of those conversations with like you know, t younger 20-somethings who were just out of school who were talking this way about AI. I had this fascinating conversation with a friend of mine who's a novelist who's older but uh is a novelist and she's she's actually kind of receptive to using AI.

But at some point I said to her, it's like, I'm convinced that these tools make me a more original. writer and thinker. That doesn't make sense to me. Like that seems like a category mistake. If you're drawing upon something that is like the average of human knowledge, like that should make you less original if you're using it.

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