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A key challenge for the safety of advanced AI systems is the possibility that multiple simpler agents might inadvertently form a collective agent with capabilities and goals distinct from those of any individual. More generally, determining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Frederik Hytting Jørgensen , Sebastian Weichwald , Lewis Hammond

Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand has been a long-standing challenge. With the rise of advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Antoine Bosselut , Lonneke van der Plas

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, are increasingly employed for creative tasks like scientific idea generation, constituting a form of generalization from training data unaddressed by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Samuel Schapiro , Sumuk Shashidhar , Alexi Gladstone , Jonah Black , Royce Moon , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Lav R. Varshney

Generative AI is shaping an increasingly hybrid society, where ideas and cultural artefacs are created both by humans and intelligent machines. Human creativity is influenced in complex, nonlinear ways by the actions of AI-driven agents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shota Shiiku , Raja Marjieh , Manuel Anglada-Tort , Nori Jacoby

Although explainable computational creativity seeks to create and sustain computational models of creativity that foster a collaboratively creative process through explainability, there remains little to no work in supporting designers when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Michael Clemens

Creativity in AI imagery remains a fundamental challenge, requiring not only the generation of visually compelling content but also the capacity to add novel, expressive, and artistically rich transformations to images. Unlike conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Kavana Venkatesh , Connor Dunlop , Pinar Yanardag

Creativity is a complex, multi-faceted concept encompassing a variety of related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours. If we wish to study creativity scientifically, then a tractable and well-articulated model of creativity is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Anna Jordanous , Bill Keller

Creativity is individual, and it is social. The social aspects of creativity have become of increasing interest as systems have emerged that mobilize large numbers of people to engage in creative tasks. We examine research related to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-19 Lixiu Yu , Jeffrey V. Nickerson , Yasuaki Sakamoto

Creative design is a nonlinear process where designers generate diverse ideas in the pursuit of an open-ended goal and converge towards consensus through iterative remixing. In contrast, AI-powered design tools often employ a linear…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiayi Zhou , Renzhong Li , Junxiu Tang , Tan Tang , Haotian Li , Weiwei Cui , Yingcai Wu

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an active collaborator in co-creation, understanding the distribution and dynamic of agency is paramount. The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective is crucial for this analysis, as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Shuning Zhang , Hui Wang , Xin Yi

Formalizing creativity-related concepts has been a long-term goal of Computational Creativity. To the same end, we explore Formal Learning Theory in the context of creativity. We provide an introduction to the main concepts of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Luís Espírito Santo , Geraint Wiggins , Amílcar Cardoso

This paper demonstrates emergence of computational creativity in the field of music. Different aspects of creativity such as producer, process, product and press are studied and formulated. Different notions of computational creativity such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Subodh Deolekar , Siby Abraham

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and its sub-branch machine learning (ML) promise machines that go beyond the boundaries of automation and behave autonomously. Applications of these machines in creative practices such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Ardavan Bidgoli , Eunsu Kang , Daniel Cardoso Llach

In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on understanding and mitigating adverse impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on society. Across academia, industry, and government bodies, a variety of endeavours are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ramya Srinivasan , Devi Parikh

In this paper, we provide a philosophical account of the value of creative systems for individuals and society. We characterize creativity in very broad philosophical terms, encompassing natural, existential, and social creative processes,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Michele Loi , Eleonora Viganò , Lonneke van der Plas

Generative AI presents a profound challenge to traditional notions of human uniqueness, particularly in creativity. Fueled by neural network based foundation models, these systems demonstrate remarkable content generation capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jordi Linares-Pellicer , Juan Izquierdo-Domenech , Isabel Ferri-Molla , Carlos Aliaga-Torro

This article presents an overview of approaches to modeling the human psyche in the context of constructing an artificial one. Based on this overview, a concept of cognitive architecture is proposed, in which the psyche is viewed as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Anton Kolonin , Vladimir Krykov

Experiential AI is presented as a research agenda in which scientists and artists come together to investigate the entanglements between humans and machines, and an approach to human-machine learning and development where knowledge is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Drew Hemment , Dave Murray-Rust , Vaishak Belle , Ruth Aylett , Matjaz Vidmar , Frank Broz

The term co-creativity has been used to describe a wide variety of human-AI assemblages in which human and AI are both involved in a creative endeavor. In order to assist with disambiguating research efforts, we present an ontology of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Zhiyu Lin , Mark Riedl

Can we develop a computer algorithm that assesses the creativity of a painting given its context within art history? This paper proposes a novel computational framework for assessing the creativity of creative products, such as paintings,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ahmed Elgammal , Babak Saleh