I’ve been doing more research into human-AI co-creation, specifically for creative writing, and have noticed a couple of trends that are somewhat disheartening (from my view as a writer), but also somewhat exciting (in that they present important areas for critical reflection and creativity). The first is the tendency that I’ve noted before to want to use AI to simply mimic or replace parts of the creative process that humans are capable of doing on their own — faster, perhaps, or with more iterations, but essentially doing what humans can do. The second, and more distressing, is the tendency to assume that various parts of the human creative process should be delegated to AI, and that the product will not be harmed by doing so. 

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After the Story Roots for Sustainable Futures intensive, I have continued to reflect on the experience of embodied and in-place storytelling, and realized that I haven’t thought much about the potential implications for the body and physicality that hybridization with AI would have on my scholar character. In particular, AI seems like it could challenge our understandings of the limits of self (and in fact, I’ve been thinking about what “our” means, and the kinds of assumptions I’m making, coming from a western-dominated context). This begs the question of how we can develop anti-colonial and queer understandings of the body/self through engagement with AI — and what kinds of AI futures would enable this, given that current AI technologies are often hostile and discriminatory toward non-normative bodies.

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