MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (April 23, 2025): The Creativity Issue features Defining creativity in the Age of AI: Meet the artists, musicians, composers, and architects exploring productive ways to collaborate with the now ubiquitous technology. Plus: Debunking the myth of creativity, asteroid-deflecting nukes, bitcoin-powered hot tubs, and a new way to detect bird flu.

How AI can help supercharge creativity

Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.

How creativity became the reigning value of our time

In “The Cult of Creativity,” Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.

AI is coming for music, too

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.