Arundhati Roy at People's AI Assembly: AI firms treat creative work like toothpaste
AINowInstitute · x · 2026-10-30
AI Now Institute shared clips from the People's AI Assembly, where novelist Arundhati Roy spoke with Naomi Klein and Karen Hao. Roy argued that writing, music and art are "at the heart... a beautiful, elusive secret," and criticized AI companies for taking "all of it and look[ing] at it like a product — no different from mosquito repellent or toothpaste." The full conversation is available online.
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