Opening — Why this matters now AI didn’t kill originality. It industrialized its absence. Contemporary art has been circling the same anxiety for decades: the sense that everything has already been done, named, theorized, archived. AI merely removed the remaining friction. What once took years of study and recombination now takes seconds of probabilistic interpolation. The result is not a new crisis, but a visible one. ...
In the expanding domain of artificial intelligence, creativity is no longer a human-only endeavor. From music composition to visual art and storytelling, AI agents are taking on increasingly creative roles. But as these systems become more proactive, one question looms large: who’s really in control? Enter MOSAAIC — a framework developed to guide the design of co-creative systems by managing autonomy, initiative, and authority in shared human-AI decision-making. The Three Pillars: Autonomy, Initiative, and Authority The authors define three interrelated yet distinct aspects of control: ...