General Article Will AI change culture forever? It already has

Topic Selected: Artificial Intelligence Book Volume: 434

If AI can clone Kanye West and scoop a photography award, is it too late to be afraid? Baz Luhrmann, Rowan Williams and others weigh in.

By Tristram Fane Saunders

The June 1893 issue of The Studio, a London arts journal, was dedicated to an urgent debate: ‘Is the Camera the Friend or Foe of Art?’ If a machine can produce a beautiful, lifelike image at the touch of a button, does that devalue ‘real’ art? It’s the same question artists are asking today, 130 years later, about artificial intelli...

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