AI Collaboration and the Decentering of Human Creativity

Western philosophical traditions have long framed creativity as an exclusively human capacity, reinforcing anthropocentric assumptions about authorship and artistic agency. The rise of generative AI challenges this view by introducing non-human systems capable of contributing meaningfully to creative production. This paper examines how AI collaboration destabilizes traditional human-centered models of creativity. Drawing on posthumanist and new materialist perspectives, we argue that creativity should be understood as a distributed process emerging from interactions between human and non-human agents. This perspective calls for rethinking authorship, originality, and creative agency in an era of human–AI collaboration.