{"id":87637,"date":"2026-09-25T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87637"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:23:07","slug":"opinion-dont-let-ai-take-over-our-human-creative-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87637","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Don\u2019t let AI take over our human creative expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/24\/fe526ea3-3524-4877-9c28-a90cc8117a90_3afb4d7c.jpg?itok=0Orrl1XT&amp;v=1790222866\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">More than three years ago, I articulated concerns regarding the existential threat of artificial intelligence in a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">piece<\/span> entitled \u201cHow Hong Kong can play a role in preventing AI Armageddon\u201d.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">There is an increasing number of articles about exactly this. Here I concentrate on a more insidious encroachment on our humanity \u2013 how AI is capturing our creative expression and replacing us in a way that is <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">making it harder<\/span> to discern what is creatively human.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As a scientist, my inclination is to filter societal shifts through the prism of rigorous scientific methodology. What we are witnessing today, across the global cultural landscape, is a profound and deeply ironic AI technological inversion. It is as worrying as it is threatening to the essence of our humanity.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For decades, the standard narrative on the emergence of AI was of the beneficent golden human age that would follow. An age that unburdens us from mundane chores by leaving machines and AI to perform those that are dull, repetitive, dangerous. By liberating us from these chores, AI was supposed to grant us an abundance of free time to pursue the arts, culture and (supposedly unique) human creative endeavour in general: from painting to poetry, prose to performance, from music to mime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3368408\/dont-let-ai-take-over-our-human-creative-expression?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years ago, I articulated concerns regarding the existential threat of artificial intelligence in a piece entitled \u201cHow Hong Kong can play a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[326,525,24345,2618,11252],"class_list":["post-87637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-creative","tag-dont","tag-expression","tag-human","tag-opinion","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}