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Don’t let AI take over our human creative expression

More than three years ago, I articulated concerns regarding the existential threat of artificial intelligence in a piece entitled "How Hong Kong can play a role in preventing AI Armageddon". Here I concentrate on a more insidious encroachment on our humanity – how AI is capturing our creative expression and replacing us in a way that is making it harder to discern what is creatively human.

Don’t let AI take over our human creative expression

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More than three years ago, I articulated concerns regarding the existential threat of artificial intelligence in a piece entitled "How Hong Kong can play a role in preventing AI Armageddon".

There is an increasing number of articles about exactly this.

Here I concentrate on a more insidious encroachment on our humanity – how AI is capturing our creative expression and replacing us in a way that is making it harder to discern what is creatively human.

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More than three years ago, I articulated concerns regarding the existential threat of artificial intelligence in a piece entitled "How Hong Kong can play a role in preventing AI Armageddon". Here I concentrate on a more insidious encroachment on our humanity – how AI is capturing our creative expression and replacing us in a way that is making it harder to discern what is creatively human. There is an increasing number of articles about exactly this.

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