Art doesn’t necessarily need to include people, and art that omits them isn’t necessarily inhumane – but we need to resist the allure of the soothing blank.

When I read the line “For its right wing adherents, the absence of humans is a feature, not a bug, of AI art” it felt like a contribution to a conversation I’ve been having in my head for years.

It comes from an essay by Gareth Watkins for New Socialist and resurfaced recently because the US Department of Homeland Security posted a pai...