Writers, designers, actors, coders, musicians, thinkers — they’re all worried about being replaced by machines. But what if the A.I.s are actually here to help? (Part one of <a href="https://freakonomics.com/what-will-a-i-do-to-and-for-human-creativity/" rel="noopener noreferrer">a two-part series</a>.)&nbsp;<ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://www.seanastin.com/biography" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sean Astin</a>, actor, president of SAG-AFTRA.</li><li><a href="https://kk.org/biography" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kevin Kelly</a>, co-founder of Wired.</li><li><a href="https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethan Mollick</a>, associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eline-van-der-velden-2ab8285a/?isSelfProfile=false" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eline Van der Velden</a>, founder and C.E.O. of Particle6.</li></ul></li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://link.amazon/B0hIMBIuU" rel="noopener noreferrer">Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI</a>, by Ethan Mollick (2026).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.equator.org/articles/arundhati-roy-artificial-intelligence" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apocalypse Now and Then</a>," by Arundhati Roy (Equator, 2026).</li><li>"<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10591478261474243" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical Study of Large Language Model-Generated Product Ideas</a>," by Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra, Ethan Mollick, Gideon Nave, and Karl Ulrich (Production and Operations Management, 2026).</li><li>"<a href="https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/quiet-my-exoself" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quiet, My Exoself</a>," by Kevin Kelly (KK, 2026).</li><li><a href="https://link.amazon/B0culeMF6" rel="noopener noreferrer">Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI</a>, by Ethan Mollick (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.isid.ac.in/~tridip/Teaching/DevEco/Readings/03Expectations/02Kremer-QJE1993.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development</a>," by Michael Kremer (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993).</li></ul></li></ul>&nbsp;<ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-poison-an-a-i-machine/" rel="noopener noreferrer">How to Poison the A.I. Machine</a>," by Freakonomics Radio (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/the-curious-brilliant-vanishing-mr-feynman/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Curious, Brilliant, Vanishing Mr. Feynman</a>," series by Freakonomics Radio (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/how-to-think-about-a-i/" rel="noopener noreferrer">How to Think About A.I.</a>," series by Freakonomics Radio (2023).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/103-pieces-of-advice-that-may-or-may-not-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer">103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work</a>," by Freakonomics Radio (2022).</li></ul></li></ul> Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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