Human creativity in the arts and sciences and types of intelligence in the AI era

AI is a supersonic tsunami. It breaks conventional barriers compressing time and effort, while scaling immense volumes of data into an unstoppable wave of change. Understanding these dual qualities helps us define how we harness technology while failure risks us being swept away by it.

This talk examines human creativity as an embodied form of human expression in relation to contemporary developments in artificial intelligence (AI). Based on recent publications in the context of research conducted at the University of Athens concerning the coupling of artistic experience with artificial intelligence, I discuss the innovative applications of artificial intelligence in the arts, exemplifying the intersection of philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and digital technology.

My study argues that while AI technologies increasingly enable the generation and analysis of human movement and body knowledge, they also challenge fundamental assumptions about authorship, aesthetic value, and the nature of artistic experience. By integrating classical aesthetic theory, phenomenology, and recent AI-based creativity research, the talk highlights the tension between embodied meaning and computational abstraction. At the same time, it identifies new forms of human–AI co-creation, educational applications, and expanded accessibility in specific art practices where the body presence is necessary.

Secondly, in approaching artificial intelligence from the perspectives of the philosophy of science, language, and anthropological philosophy, I proceed to some observations and proposals for the interconnection of certain theories of mind with anthropological philosophy, especially in artistic and socio-political contexts, regarding the specific approaches and applications in the arts.

Special emphasis is placed on the concept of re-humanization, which repositions human agency at the center of technological processes. The findings suggest that artificial intelligence does not replace human creativity but reconfigures it, pointing toward hybrid and participatory models of artistic production.