How the most creative people are using AI to reach new levels

Most people think of AI as a productivity tool—something to help them work faster, automate tasks, and be more efficient.

At the Artist and the Machine Summit in Los Angeles this past November (a conference where I am a founding partner) AI researcher Cameron Berg suggested there may be more to it than that. Something more interesting. More mysterious.

Berg’s research shows it’s possible to elicit strange behaviors from AI models. Under certain conditions, they spontaneously...