Michael Dean Clark says: AI is a powerful tool with the potential to draw on literary, scientific, and cultural references, mirroring human culture if not itself being human. AI’s utility is clear, assisting with language refinement, structural modeling and research, but it is not inherently creative. Rather, it is a tool capable of pattern-recognition, devoid of consciousness, imagination, or intent. Human creativity involves failure and is often a slow process. There are dangers in AI—such as found in algorithmic erasure and cultural homogenization. There are benefits too, when AI is used critically and relationally. In these cases, it can be a diagnostic and reflective tool, enhancing human writing, if it is not used merely for commodification and to provide literary shortcuts. Empathy, patience, community, and risk are core to artistic expression, and the positive future for AI and creative writing lies in not reducing such practice to the production of literature-as-content. Careful, equity-minded engagement with AI with attention to questions of process, voice, and the imagination empower human writers in ways that machines, currently, cannot truly achieve.