Thrive or Survive: Why Creativity is the Key to an AI-Future

AI may make life easier, but at what cost to our imagination? Like a bike we stop riding, our creativity weakens when we overrely on AI. Still, while adults may feel rusty, we can get back on. For children, the risk is even greater: if they never build that muscle in the first place—never learn to ride at all—there’s nothing to return to. This all comes just as jobs are being disrupted, problems grow more complex, and we need more imagination, not less. This panel explores how we can grow creatively with AI (versus be diminished by it) and what we must build now to make that future possible.