
The Creativity Gap: How AI is amplifying creative inequality and what we can do about it
Published on April 11, 2025
The application of AI to creative arts and creative hypothesis generation in science and design is nothing new, but it has amped up tremendously in recent years with the advent of deep neural nets trained on vast volumes of human creative products.
When I introduced the term Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in 2005, I had already been experimenting with AI for creative arts for two and a half decades. Watching how the intersection of AI and creativity has evolved over the course of my career, I have observed a striking sociological pattern: Modern AI significantly amplifies creativity inequality, mirroring the economic inequality amplification we're already familiar with.
