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The artist is a child of two cultures, two languages, and—in human terms—one musician and one computer programmer. “My work, at its simplest level, is about exploring the contradictions that stem from not fitting neatly into one category,” Chung, who identifies as nonbinary, said on Sunday in Dubai, where they accepted a TIME100 Impact Award for their influence on the field of artificial intelligence. “I like to think of \[it\] as a new hybridity.” Among other binaries, Chung’s work explores the distinction between human and machine. The artist, who splits their time between London and New York, creates mesmeric works that combine painting and performance art. They have trained a neural network on 20 years worth of their own work, teaching it to identify and mimic their style. Chung then enlists that neural network as a collaborator, by equipping robotic arms with paint brushes, and paints alongside it. The process is a creative act heavy with symbolism for today’s age of anxiety over artificial intelligence. **Read More:** [_Artist Sougwen Chung On Finding Inspiration In AI_](https://time.com/collection/time100-impact-awards/6691711/time100-impact-awards-sougwen-chung/) In an era where AI companies are justifiably criticized by artists for “[stealing](https://juliabausenhardt.com/how-ai-is-stealing-your-art/)” their work to train AI systems that produce derivative copies of their art without remuneration, Chung’s work explores not only the creative augmentations that AI can give to the artist, but also – paradoxically—the fundamental humanity of art as a discipline. “Traditional forms of creativity must shape, but not be replaced by, technological development,” Chung said in their acceptance speech. “We’ve observed the damage to our planet done by unchecked technological growth—the damage to our creative industries, too. We need now, more than ever, approaches that foreground hybrid creative innovation that help shape the development of the technology that shapes us, while stewarding what came before.” Chung’s TIME100 Impact award was bestowed by Esai Morales, the star of film and TV with credits including _Ozark_ and _Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning_. “In Mission Impossible, my character … wants to use AI to rule the world, so it’s a relief to be part of an evening celebrating people who are actually devoted to enriching and enhancing humanity,” Morales told the assembled crowd at Dubai’s Museum of the Future. “Sougwen pushes the boundaries of what it means to make art, and what it means to work with non-human collaborators,” Morales said. “Sougwen explores what this interaction feels like, and is curious about the space where mankind and machine reflect each other. Sougwen believes that no matter how powerful and advanced AI has gotten, it always should retain an element of the human hand.” Before leaving the stage, Chung made it clear that they believe art isn’t going away in the age of AI. “This award is not just about me,” they said. “It’s a spotlight on the meaning made by the artists of today, the artists that came before, and the ones to come.” _TIME100 Impact Awards / AI is sponsored by World Government Summit, Museum of the Future, Northern Data Group, and AI71._ ## Transcript I think that the Ice Caves transform Society in many ways, but I would say Health Care is probably wasn't the most important but we need to include everybody say that we can engage the global South as well as the guy who knows that the management is very divided. You don't actually thinking the society's going to transform what we understand up as a I really significantly over the next few years. I think we have so much to do in terms of learning what AI is and can be and what it's also not and moving more towards this idea of collective intelligence and hybrid intelligences as I think the way forward is going to MP5 human intelligence. And if you're trying to think about like previous events where people certainly got smarter one of them was the invention of the printing press so perhaps the generalization of AI is going to have the same effect on the humidity of the invention of the printing press I think is happening, but we often think about it as impacting the developed World advanced economies in Europe China the US and in reality a tremendously the developing world and this is something we are quite excited about amazing opportunities in education in healthcare for the whole world. Not just the advanced economies. Build AI tools to create radical new improvements and how we tackle the issues around the world and we make sure that the advancement of the I reach everyone democratically right balance is important example of what 30 or so since it was created and even today have the world has no access to the internet right hasn't even touched like, you know, half the world like over three billion people who was in 30 years download music for you and me but they're still so many people who don't have access to it, but then giving them access but still protecting people that violence is an important. I think the main thing is however, we think about expertise and not just the office and everything. We will be challenged and push to be more and I think that's very intimidating for a lot of people, but I'm here to really celebrate. That when you Embrace him and when you improve literacy, there is actually a whole new world of expertise out there and anyone from a working-class background from a different place can now have access to intelligence and that potential is huge and we should not avoid it should be embraced and I'm excited by that potential. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/sougwen-chung-ai-time-impact-award/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/sougwen-chung-ai-time-impact-award/"},"headline":"Sougwen Chung Brings Together Art and AI","datePublished":"2024-02-11T18:09:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:24:22.136Z","description":"Sougwen Chung accepted a TIME100 Impact Award for their artistic influence on the field of artificial intelligence.","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/sougwen-chung-ai-time-impact-award/","keywords":["sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6049a26e97c64d8b/698a4872e6e84a680f2b1697/BFA_43486_6148925.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Billy Perrigo","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/"}],"creator":"Billy Perrigo","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6049a26e97c64d8b/698a4872e6e84a680f2b1697/BFA_43486_6148925.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/","name":"The TIME100 Impact Awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/sougwen-chung-ai-time-impact-award/","name":"Sougwen Chung Brings Together Art and AI"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 Impact Awards in Dubai: How Will AI Transform Society?","description":"From the TIME100 Impact Awards in Dubai, we ask our guests: What is the most significant way that AI is going to transform society in the next 5 years?","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/inPckn4o/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-02-11T19:50:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/inPckn4o.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/sougwen-chung-ai-time-impact-award/","duration":"PT2M55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-impact-awards/sougwen-chung-ai-time-impact-award/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```