AI, Art, and the Future of Creativity│Panel Discussion

This panel discussion brings together Naomie Seck (curator), Monty Lee (head of LG AI Research Superintelligence Lab), and Saul Park (LG brand caretaker) to explore the intersection of AI and artistic creativity. The conversation begins with the LG-Guggenheim partnership, which supports artists working with technology. Monty Lee describes his collaboration with artist Stephanie Dinkins, focusing on what AI models remember and what gets lost, leading to training a new model with data collected by Dinkins. The panel discusses the historical relationship between technological advances and artistic evolution, citing the Renaissance, the paint tube, and photography as examples. They argue that AI is fundamentally different from past tools because it is a non-deterministic, probabilistic engine that makes its own decisions, and its inner workings are often opaque due to proprietary code. This raises questions about access, agency, and the definition of creativity itself. The panelists offer competing definitions: Naomie cites the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition with creativity as intuition, emotion, and imagination; Monty distinguishes hallucination from creativity, proposing that creativity requires meaningful, valuable novelty beyond randomness. They discuss the dangers and opportunities of AI, emphasizing the need for openness, diversity, and human agency to avoid a closed loop. Saul Park highlights the democratization of creative production, but stresses the importance of intent and awareness. The panel concludes with a vision of co-evolution where AI and humans expand each other’s possibilities, with regulation and shared values as prerequisites.