Brooke Biaz says: rather than reducing AI to a set of technological functions it can best be considered through the lens of emotion, memory, creative practice and cultural critique. AI offers conceptual provocation and ethical challenges. One conceptual provocation might well be the inaccuracy of the term ‘artificial intelligence’ itself, given that AI lacks sensation, intention and the capacity for embodied experience. Such things we have long associated with intelligence. More broadly, we do not quite have the range of philosophic, psychological and languages to fully explore and consider how AI relates to our understanding of human intelligence and creativity. AI’s version of creativity is a simulation, and it cannot replicate the layered, relational and visceral processes that are core to creative writing. It can, however, assist with research, with writing structure and with modeling language, acting as a tool and as a mirror—that is, to enhance reflection of what we do and who we are. AI is incapable of replacing the socially and emotionally entangled act of creative writing, but today’s bifurcated creative cultures influence creative writers and the readers and audiences for their works—some AI-enabled, and some intentionally human-driven. It is hoped, in this, we will not lose the personal satisfaction that many find in the human-centered creative process—whether as participants in creating or as audiences for creatively produced works. Complexity, presence and human action are central to the integrity of creative writing.