Grimes Thinks That The End Of Human-Made Art Is Near

Art as we know it might vanish forever. Grimes, who appeared on the Mindscape podcast with theoretical physicist Sean Caroll, talked briefly about what she believes is next for the form of creative expression: a future without human beings. Can you imagine telling a future version of Alexa or Siri to paint you an original idea that you describe out loud? Ok, that sounds sort of cool. Although it's really scary while you sit and think about it.





Grimes, who studied neuroscience at the Canadian McGill University before blowing up with her warped psych-pop, is one with technology. She is aware it, breathes it, and can tell what's coming next. "I feel like we're in the end of art, human art," she mentioned on Mindscape. "Once there's actually AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), they're going to be so much better with making art than us."


This is wild to think about, yet what Grimes says next about once this might happen makes it all of the more chilling. "Once AI can fully master science and art, which could happen in the second 10 years, probably more like 20 or 30 years." We're getting closer to the emotionless future painted by dystopian movies where true innovation doesn't exist and it's particularly frightening to imagine soulless creativity normalized. You have got to get the heebie-jeebies just reading this.


Grimes is preparing to blow the world away with her forthcoming album, Miss_Anthropocene, that comes out on February 21. She recently released "So Heavy I Fell By way of the Earth" earlier this month.


Check out Grimes's Mindscape conversation up above.