Abstract
Abstract
This chapter explores the impact of AI mirrors on human creative agency, empathy, and self-expression. AI mirrors’ power is double-edged. The chapter poses a choice between using AI to fuel our creativity as new tools for humane expression—or letting them disempower our creative agency, leaving us as curators and passive consumers of mechanical art “product.” It presents a choice between AI that aids us in overcoming the communication barriers that separate us—or AI as empathy substitutes that reduce our understanding of love and companionship to mechanical transactions of utility and convenience. The chapter explores how the commercial axis of AI mirrors today, tilted by the lack of regulatory guardrails toward human creative disempowerment and social alienation, is a consequence of policy, not destiny. The chapter ends by considering art’s unique power to break the patterns that shackle us to the past, reopening hope for our liberation and reinvention with AI.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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