Paper short abstract:

The ongoing study critically overviews AI-generated artworks, specifically focusing on creatives from BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and PWD communities. It argues that future visions of human-machine creative symbiosis should promote inclusion, equality and diversity, to overcome our anxieties and cultural biases.

Paper long abstract:

The first computer programmer in the history of humanity was Ada Lovelace. In one of her famous writings, she envisioned: “Numerous fundamental relations of music can be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, such that a machine could compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent” (Hollings et al., 2018; see also Barbican, 2019). It can be argued that a creative and non-conventional environment, where she was raised and educated, allowed her to develop a vision for human-machine creative symbiosis, which is still flourishing nowadays with machine learning and AI. This paper critically overviews creative processes from AI-generated domains, specifically focusing on creatives from BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and PWD communities. Drawing from different AI-generated domains, such as music, art, and poetry, this study highlights the role of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and PWD communities in human-machine co-creativity, particularly in the last decades. Will we be able to overcome our anxieties and cultural biases to embrace a new age of creative symbiosis? How can AI help us to better understand each other, highlighting the importance of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and PWD communities in the creation of our common cultural artifacts? Can we develop creativity as a common language across different communities and scientific disciplines, to envision a future of inclusion, equality, and diversity between humans and machines? This study argues that visions of the future of human-machine creative symbiosis should promote inclusion, equality, and diversity, to solve the societal crisis facing humanity in the 21st century.