To start: Ancient Greek myths; Jonathan Swift’s word machine ‘Engine’ in Gulliver’s Travels; Kapel Čapek’s modernist play R.U.R and its robota—synthetic organic matter designed for work. Cinematic ziggurats, laboratories, and underground factories in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Later films, such as Star Wars and Short Circuit. What it is to be human is core to the question of AI’s relationship with creative writing, and we have explored this from the automatons of ancient Greek myths to contemporary literature and film. Attendant to that question is whether AI can have ‘understanding’, in our human sense. Creative writing provides a unique human space. A place where written language is used creatively, involving us combining our imaginations with forms of analysis. New knowledge emerges for creative writing—ideas, observations, and feelings are shared with the reader or audience. Can AI authentically occupy such a space? Is so, how, and to what ends? Can it assist creative writers? Can it hinder them? Machine learning pioneer, Alan Turing, once noted that at some point the teacher (in this case the creative writer) becomes unable to predict how the pupil (the artificial intelligence) will behave. That thought has fascinating implications for our sense of what creative writing is and why we humans do it. Here in this book, twelve interviewees—creative writers, technologists, and educators—consider ten questions about AI and creative writing. Their answers provide practical, historical, philosophical, technological, and artistic context and meaning.