GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY: PRECAUTIONS, PERSPECTIVES, AND POSSIBILITIES explores the dynamic relationship between generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and creativity. This book brings together global scholars from diverse elds to explore the transformative impact of genAI on human creativity. As technological advancements in genAI continue to accelerate, this book navigates through the complexities of understanding and harnessing its potential. Generative Articial Intelligence and Creativity not only dissects the fundamental principles underlying genAIs contribution to creativity but also addresses the paradoxical impact of genAI on human creative industries. This book serves as a unique guide for anyone seeking to comprehend the implications of genAI on the future of human creativity.
1. Introduction: Creative chickens coming home to roost: Generative AI,
long imagined, is finally here
Part 1: The Value and Application Placed on Human Creativity
2. The Paradox of Creativity in the Age of Generative Artificial
Intelligence
3. Beyond Idea Generation: The Importance of Idea Evaluation in Human-AI
Co-Creativity
4. Creative AI-gency: How AI Elicits Human Creative Potential
5. Entangled Interaction with Minimal Algorithms is interactive process
(not model size) the key to more creative machines?
Part 2: Generative AI and the Ethics of Co-Creativity
6. Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: The Ethical Debate
7. Augmenting Human Creativity with Responsible and Ethical Use of Generative
AI
8. Generative AI v. Human Creativity: Challenges for the Copyright System
9. Assessing Creativity with AI
10. Robots for Creativity
Part 3: Gen AI and the Creativity Downside
11. AI Yai Yai: The Fate of Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
12. Democratization or Devaluation? A Critical Reflection on the Impacts of
AI on Human Creatives and Creativity Professionals
13. Generative AIs impact on Creativity and Equity: Another Great Equalizer
or The Rich Get Richer?
14. The Convenience Trap: How AI Could Hinder Creativity and Learning in
Education
15. This Will (Probably) Not End Well: AI in Education and Creativity
Part 4: GenAI and the Creativity Upside
16. Human-AI Co-Creativity: Exploring Synergies Across Levels of Creative
Collaboration
17. AI as Muse: How Humans can Leverage Large Language Model AI for
Transdisciplinary Creative Thinking and Research
18. Navigating the Future of Teaching, Learning, and Creativity with
Generative AI
19. Beyond Boundaries: Transdisciplinary Creativity with Generative
Artificial Intelligence
Part 5: Conclusion
20. Navigating Creativity and AI: Possibilities, Precautions, and Future Paths
Matthew Worwood is Associate Director of UConn Digital Media & Design at the Stamford campus. He also serves as the Director of Digital Media CT, a statewide collaborative dedicated to furthering Digital Media education in Connecticut. Matthews research focuses on teacher creativity and design thinking inside the context of teaching and learning. He has also published on design-based practices that influence the development and implementation of technological solutions in education.
Matthew blogs at DadsforCreativity.com and co-hosts the Fueling Creativity podcast. He is also an active contributor to Creativity and Education and produces the occasional low-budget documentary film. Matthew currently serves on the Advisory board at St Gregory the Great Elementary School in Danbury, CT; he is also in the process of setting up a small UK-based charity dedicated to helping post-care foster children in London, England.
James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author/editor of more than 45 books and 300 papers, which include theoretical contributions such as the Four-C Model of Creativity (with Ron Beghetto) and empirical work, such as the study that spawned the Sylvia Plath Effect. He is a past president of Division 10 (Society for Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts) of the American Psychological Association (APA). James has won many awards, including Mensas research award, the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, and APAs Berlyne, Arnheim, and Farnsworth awards. He co-founded two major journals (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and Psychology of Popular Media Culture). He has tested Dr. Sanjay Guptas creativity on CNN, appeared in the hit Australian show Redesign Your Brain, narrated the comic book documentary Independents, and is set to appear in a 2021 Netflix documentary. He wrote the book and lyrics to Discovering Magenta, which had its NYC premiere in 2015, and co-authored a book on bad baseball pitchers with his father.
