The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art

Ted Chiang’s fiction has won four Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, six Locus Awards, and the PEN/Malamud Award and has been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories. His first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, has been translated into twenty-one languages, and the title story was the basis for the Oscar-nominated film Arrival. The New York Times chose his second collection, Exhalation, as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019. As a 2023 TIME100 Most Influential Person in AI, Chiang is described as “perhaps the world’s most celebrated living science-fiction author.”

This event is part of CDH’s “Humanities for AI” — a series of projects, initiatives, and conversations that centers humanities values and approaches in the development, use, and interpretation of the field broadly known as AI.

Presented in partnership with the Humanities Initiative “Media and Meaning” project and supported by the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (AI Lab).