Shady Cosgrove says: AI’s capacity to learn, without embodied experience, complicates our sense of it. It does so because it challenges our traditional ideas of knowledge, of creativity, and of the human subject. Philosophical, pedagogical, and emotional concerns arise. While AI can support creative writers, perhaps helping to overcome writer’s block, or assisting with revisions, AI can’t possess an imagination, or have true understanding or perspective, in our human sense. And the irrationality, urgency, and emotional resonance that drive human creativity are absent. Literary theory, Australian Indigenous knowledge and educational practice assist us in understanding AI’s potential relationships with creative writing, but the lack of embodiment and experiential memory precludes empathy and raises questions about intention (or the lack of intention) in AI. Creative writing is ultimately rooted in lived human experience, vulnerability, and imaginative risk—none of which AI can possess. There are also concerns about the environmental impact of AI and about socio-economic impact (concerns raised vividly in the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike). The future will depend not solely on technological advancement but on how humans choose to engage with and shape technological tools.