Proauthorism is a creative philosophy that welcomes Artificial Intelligence as a genuine partner in the artistic process, while keeping human responsibility, intention, and authorship unmistakably central.
Artificial Intelligence may assist in exploration, provocation, and transformation. Meaning, judgement, and publication remain human decisions.
A new practice needs its own language. Four words carry it: one for the philosophy, one for the person who practises it, one for the work they make, and one for the act of making it.
A creative value-system in which Artificial Intelligence is welcomed as part of the artistic process, while human responsibility, intention, and authorship remain unmistakably central.
One who practises Proauthorism: a creative who works openly with Artificial Intelligence without surrendering authorship.
Describing work created through Proauthorist practice: collaborative in process, human in responsibility.
The act of creating through deliberate collaboration between human imagination and Artificial Intelligence. Not automation. Not outsourcing. Conversation.
Proauthorism sets a standard for honest collaboration between human creativity and Artificial Intelligence: one that keeps accountability clear as the boundary between the two continues to move.
It does not diminish authorship. It defines it.
It recognises Artificial Intelligence as a partner capable of generative contribution, but not of agency, belief, ownership, or consciousness.
The human creative remains responsible for intention, interpretation, inclusion, exclusion, and publication.
Proauthorism applies wherever a human claims authorship of a work. It does not govern tools that produce finished output on request, with no human author shaping it. Such output is not Proauthorial work. Proauthorism asks only that it be declared for what it is.
These definitions, like the collaboration they describe, will evolve over time.