692. What Will A.I. Do to (and for) Human Creativity?

Writers, designers, actors, coders, musicians, thinkers — they’re all worried about being replaced by machines. But what if the A.I.s are actually here to help? (Part one of a two-part series (freakonomics.com/what-will-a-i-do-to-and-for-h…).)

• SOURCES:• Sean Astin (seanastin.com/biography), actor, president of SAG-AFTRA.
• Kevin Kelly (kk.org/biography), co-founder of Wired.
• Ethan Mollick (faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick), associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Eline Van der Velden (linkedin.com/in/eline-van-der-velden-2ab8285a/…), founder and C.E.O. of Particle6.

• RESOURCES:• Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI (link.amazon/B0hIMBIuU), by Ethan Mollick (2026).
• "Apocalypse Now and Then (equator.org/articles/arundhati-roy-artificial-…)," by Arundhati Roy (Equator, 2026).
• "Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical Study of Large Language Model-Generated Product Ideas (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1059147826147…)," by Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra, Ethan Mollick, Gideon Nave, and Karl Ulrich (Production and Operations Management, 2026).
• "Quiet, My Exoself (kevinkelly.substack.com/p/quiet-my-exoself)," by Kevin Kelly (KK, 2026).
• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI (link.amazon/B0culeMF6), by Ethan Mollick (2024).
• "The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development (isid.ac.in/~tridip/Teaching/DevEco/Readings/03…)," by Michael Kremer (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993).

• EXTRAS:• "How to Poison the A.I. Machine (freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-poison-an-a-i-…)," by Freakonomics Radio (2025).
• "The Curious, Brilliant, Vanishing Mr. Feynman (freakonomics.com/the-curious-brilliant-vanishi…)," series by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
• "How to Think About A.I. (freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/how-to-think-abou…)," series by Freakonomics Radio (2023).
• "103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work (freakonomics.com/podcast/103-pieces-of-advice-…)," by Freakonomics Radio (2022).

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