A meeting of the 161 Consorcio on July 18, 2026, featured a video discussing the capabilities and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI). Speaker Svetlana Makarova highlighted five areas where humans differ from AI: experiences, inspiration for dreams, social acuity and reading emotions, emotional courage, imagination, and memories.
The video questioned whether AI can produce genuine art, suggesting that while it can reproduce works, AI-generated art may not convey emotions like human art. Examples of AI being used to de-age artists in music videos and films were noted. The discussion also touched upon the increasing difficulty in discerning AI-generated texts, with detection software being developed and newspapers debating the acceptance of such content.
