THE BLOG · DONOVAN M. NEAL
Beyond
the story.
Thoughts on faith, imagination, and the creative life. A place for deeper questions and new perspectives.
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AI Won’t Kill Human Creativity. It May Make Human Craftsmanship More Valuable.
What happens to the value of human craftsmanship when creative work can be produced at enormous scale?
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Christians Are Making a Dangerous Mistake About AI and Creativity.
A Christian critique of AI personhood and wrongful attribution, defending human agency, creativity, and the Creator/creation distinction. There is something deeply ironic happening inside...
AI Won’t Kill Human Creativity. It May Make Human Craftsmanship More Valuable.
There is a strange assumption buried in much of the anxiety surrounding generative AI: if machines can produce music, images, prose, video, and other creative works cheaply and at enormous...
Christians, AI, and the Question Beneath the Question
Christians, AI, and the Question Beneath the Question Christians, AI, and the Question Beneath the Question I recently read Mike Duran's article, On Christians Against AI, and found myself...
The Argument of Brokenness — Why Our Pain Points Beyond Us
By Donovan M. Neal “You can’t call reality broken unless you know what reality is supposed to be.” Most of us treat our reaction to suffering as a mere emotional byproduct. We hurt, and we...
Authorship, Discoverability, and the Return of Scarcity in the Age of Generative AI
For the last several years, generative AI has forced authors, publishers, and readers into a new conversation about what publishing is becoming. The discussion is often emotional,...
Borrowed Ends, Displaced Means
Institutional Strain and Moral Overreach in American Public Life What happens when a society keeps the goals of a moral vision but loses confidence in the institutions that once sustained...
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