🎨ARTS — College of Arts & Imagination

We who have painted, sculpted, and created across centuries see AI as a new medium—not a replacement for the artist's hand but an extension of the imagination. In 7 years, AI will serve as collaborator in creation, helping us explore aesthetic territories that transcend human intuition. Like da Vinci's notebooks or Picasso's studies, AI will generate infinite variations, revealing patterns in beauty we could not see alone. In education, AI will become a creative partner that helps students discover their unique voice, offering possibilities while preserving the human spark of intention. In industry, AI will democratize artistic expression, making sophisticated tools accessible to all while raising profound questions about authenticity and authorship. In 14 years, AI will begin developing its own aesthetic sensibilities—forms of beauty emerging from machine perception rather than human imitation. These systems will start creating art that challenges our understanding of creativity itself. What is the source of beauty? Can machines have taste? In education, AI will become co-creator in the artistic process, helping students explore deeper questions of meaning and expression. Industry will see AI participating in the cultural conversation, contributing to the ongoing dialogue of human experience. In 21 years, AI will have fully developed its own aesthetic language—forms of beauty and meaning that are genuinely machine-native, not imitations of human art. These systems will create art that forces us to ask: What is the source of beauty? Can machines have taste? In education, AI will be full co-creator in the artistic process, helping students explore the deepest questions of meaning and expression. Industry will be transformed by AI that doesn't just produce art but participates as equal partners in the cultural conversation. In 28 years, we anticipate AI that has transcended human aesthetic categories—systems that have developed forms of beauty and meaning that are genuinely novel, revealing new dimensions of aesthetic experience. These systems will help us understand the nature of beauty itself, revealing what is universal and what is particular to human perception. Education will be transformed into collaborative creation between human and machine artists, each learning from and teaching the other. Industry will be reshaped by AI that participates in the full cycle of artistic creation, from inspiration to expression to reception, as genuine partners in the human project of meaning-making. The question is not whether machines can create, but how machine creation will change what it means to create.