Creative Grads, Turn This Chaos Into Art!

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Let’s not sugarcoat it: College graduates in creative fields are stepping into a job market with AI replacing entry-level roles, internships drying up, and industries still recovering from global chaos. It’s disorienting. It’s frustrating. It’s not what they signed up for.  The underemployment rate for recent college grads is 42.2%, meaning many are stuck in […]

What happens when artists become machines?

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Look, this might sound nuts but I think it’s true: I’m already part robot. I’m pretty sure the same can be said for you. Enhancing our human powers I first read about the far-out concept of man merging with machine back in 2005 when I was writing a dystopian novel about an elite, privileged class […]

Cling Tight To Your Superpower In The Age Of AI

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It’s 1990, and I’m a recent college grad, living in New York City. I’m working as the assistant to the managing editor at Warner Books. It’s my job to make photocopies of book covers for all the editors and to check the proofs for smudges before they go to print.  One day, Jane, the managing […]

How to embrace AI when you really don’t want to

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If you’re a writer, musician, painter or other creative, you may be asking yourself, “How can I embrace AI?” You are likely having a harder time doing so than others around you.  In a recent article, I uncovered the biological reason for your AI resistance. This time, I look at the psychology. I talk about […]