Professor Warns of the Implications of Computers and AI on Art

Mihai Nadin said computers merely imitate what already exists without creating anything new.

Icons of AI apps on a smartphone screen in Oslo, Norway, on July 12, 2023. Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images

Mihai Nadin, a scholar and researcher in aesthetics and human-computer interaction, warns of the rise of computer-generated art and its implications.

“If you expect any machine in the world ... to produce art, then you don’t understand what art is,” he said. “Art is made by artists. Art is not made by machines.”