Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Tuesday, 22 Sep 2026 - 18:00

The Future of Creativity

A humanoid robot with exposed wires on its back and arm stands in profile, sketching a black-and-white portrait of a thinking man on a canvas resting on an easel

Even since the field of AI began in the 1950s, people have insisted it will never be creative. For decades, this view was easy to accept.

But today it sounds far less convincing. We are surrounded by AIs that write compelling text, compose music, create images, and produce video—tasks once thought to require human creativity alone. In the 20th century, new ideas came from human minds; in the 21st, they may increasingly come from AI systems.

Professor Daniel Susskind

Professor Daniel Susskind

Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business

Dr Daniel Susskind is a writer and economist. He explores the impact of technology, and particularly AI, on work and society. He is the Mercers’...

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