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The World is Changing: AI For Creativity — essay by Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Four tech leaders pointed readers to it: Martin Casado called it “Amazing” and said “Please read”; Aaron Levie praised its vision for AI and the creative industries; Elon Musk called it a thoughtful piece; Chamath Palihapitiya said it was worth reading. Levie identifies the central upside: Katzenberg expects lower barriers and costs to produce more films, more studio risk-taking, and new forms of storytelling, while creative skill and taste remain important.
Katzenberg’s case is not simply that technology grows the medium. He notes that earlier film transitions displaced workers, and recounts that DreamWorks’ move from hand-drawn to computer animation cost some people their place in the industry. His prescription is to build with storytellers, with credit, consent, and compensation, then debate what fairness requires rather than frame the issue as tools versus no tools.
Why it matters: For anyone assessing AI in media, the essay pairs its forecast of more films and new storytelling forms with the concrete question of who sets the terms and whether artists’ work is credited, used with consent, and compensated.
Bottom line: The article makes a substantive policy recommendation, but is best characterized as pro-development-with-guardrails advocacy, not a neutral, non-promotional recommendation: it urges 2028 Democratic presidential contenders to follow Spanberger and Sherrill while avoiding a statewide moratorium.
- It discusses concrete policy areas: assigning new power and grid costs to data-center companies, transparency and community-benefit agreements, environmental rules, limits on certain state assistance, and workforce commitments. It also notes that some measures are directives rather than guaranteed outcomes, and that the order does not adopt every playbook proposal or repeal every incentive.
- The Sherrill example adds local decision-making and state measures on electricity costs, water and energy reporting, and municipal help negotiating community-benefit agreements.
- The promotional/advocacy element is explicit: the article compares Spanberger’s order with the authors’ own “Data Center Development Playbook,” refers to “our analysis,” and presents the governors as models for 2028 contenders. This supports summarizing it as organizational policy advocacy, rather than as an independent neutral recommendation.
- A named human author cannot be established from the supplied text: it uses “I” and “we” without identifying the speaker. The article text also does not establish that Adam Kovac linked it or that Reid Hoffman endorsed it.
- The article reports polling and Loudoun fiscal figures, but those claims are not independently substantiated by the supplied article text; they should be attributed to the article rather than presented as verified here.
Elon Musk called Jeffrey Katzenberg’s The World is Changing: AI For Creativity a “Thoughtful piece” and linked to Katzenberg’s post. Katzenberg argues that AI should be built with storytellers—with credit, consent, and compensation—and that taste remains uniquely human.
Chamath Palihapitiya called Jeffrey Katzenberg’s essay “The World is Changing: AI For Creativity” “worth reading” . Katzenberg argues that AI can expand storytelling, but should be built with artists and include credit, consent, and compensation . Chamath gave no specific reason beyond the endorsement .
Matt Mullenweg passed along the Beatles’ song “Let It Be” after his mother sent it, sharing a YouTube link; he gives no specific learning takeaway.
Andrew Chen praised the Wall Street Journal article “The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History,” saying, “Every graph in this article is amazing.” Article link
Aaron Levie praised Jeffrey Katzenberg’s essay, “The World is Changing: AI For Creativity,” as a compelling vision for AI’s future in the creative industries . Read it. Levie highlighted its case that technological shifts tend to expand creative opportunities, while creative skill and taste remain valuable and become usable by more people .
Martin Casado recommends Jeffrey Katzenberg’s article “The World is Changing: AI For Creativity,” calling it “Amazing” and urging readers to read it: article. The essay argues that AI creative tools should be built with storytellers and with credit, consent, and compensation.