The Disappearance of the Creative Bone

One specific boundary that has shifted greatly in these past five years is the creative spark within human beings. The creative bone seen all throughout different time periods of civilization is dying out. I attribute this lack of creativity to the rapidly developing world of artificial technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our world significantly and we are seeing shifts between boundaries in our society. AI can definitely be beneficial, but I am going to focus on how harmful its impact is and how boundaries are collapsing and eliminating crucial aspects to human life. The boundary I am analyzing relates more to the divide between human and non-humans, the collapse of this boundary is seen through the human over-reliance on artificial intelligence. It is causing there to be a lack of distinction between the two, specifically when it comes to creativity.

One change that has been seen, due to this boundary shift, the transformation of humans into borgs. A borg is described as a collective of cybernetic beings who assimilate other species into their hive mind. A news article published by Forbes, written by Nelson Granados, analyzes this transformation caused by the boundary shift. He includes data collected by behavioral experiences that studied how AI collaborates with humans and complements each other to make decisions. “Gupta and his colleagues show that over-reliance on AI can lead to a decrease in the diversity of thinking, leading to suboptimal collective performance” (Granados 2022). An example of this is human beings immediately going to a source of Artificial Intelligence to come up with a solution, idea, or anything that requires a creative skillset. The article discusses how this is prevalent on social media, many apps are AI-driven and users can become victims to self indulging in an endless cycle of AI-regulated content. Specifically news feeds, so those who’s main source of news is from social media which is very common are seeing their diversity of thought lessen due to the AI-enabled news feeds. This goes to show that AI is not simply becoming more advanced, humans are just losing originality and unique knowledge. I think this shift is being driven, obviously by technology, but also by culture. Chat GPT specifically is a part of many people’s daily lives. I am observing a shift from the commonly said phrase “Just Google It!” to “Ask Chat..” when inquiring about something. Chat Gpt requires a significantly less human analysis and inquiry than Google would for trying to develop anything creatively. This class discussed how certain technological systems within societies that involve cyberpunk cause humans to have a decline in cognitive skills ultimately reshaping societies. This raises concern and debate on whether we want to continue to pay the price of losing creativity as a society for easier ways of gathering information. In some aspects humans do benefit from Artificail Intelligence, but I believe that is more detrimental in the long term. Simply for collapsing the boundary between authentic human thought and artificial intelligence. Are we willing to risk what makes us humans for something which seems beneficial for the short-term?