AI & the Making of Metaphysics

We are living through a Value Crisis for the human. Never before have we been closer to capacities we once attributed only to God. And, never before have the activities we thought made us valuable (writing, analyzing, reasoning) been so thoroughly absorbed into machines.

Artists and creatives are feeling this pressure intimately: the push to become an “AI person,” the cheerleading that treats skepticism as a failure of vision. This course begins from a different place. We take AI seriously as a cultural and philosophical force, a powerful new presence reshaping the ground of creativity, value, and identity. Our work is not to celebrate it, but to understand the landscape it creates, and to find where we can stand with human integrity, human creativity, and human desire.