📚 Session Opening and Context
The conference hall at the Cairo International Book Fair hosted the second session titled “AI and Literary Creativity”, moderated by Dr. Atef Obeid, consultant in systems and information.

Dr. Obeid highlighted the significance of the topic with humor, joking that publishers might one day ask for ChatGPT’s ID alongside the author’s data, emphasizing that the current stage offers opportunities but also deep challenges due to the intersection of AI with literary creativity.

🤖 AI: Tools, Capabilities, and Threats
Engineer Ziad Abdel-Tawab discussed “AI and Literature: Benefits and Threats”, noting that generative AI can simulate human thinking and analyze massive data faster than humans, marking a new technological paradigm.

He outlined AI’s historical evolution from the 1950s to social media and IoT, highlighting the data abundance and lower computing costs that fueled the AI boom since 2020.

✍️ AI: Substitute or Assistant?
Dr. Zein Abdel Hadi presented a six-month experiment using AI to write a novel, showing limited aesthetic creativity and only 25% satisfaction, with frequent linguistic errors, emphasizing that human creativity remains irreplaceable in the near future.

📱 Literature and the New Generation
Dr. Mohamed Khalil Moussa explained that Gen Z prefers interactive applications over traditional texts, making AI an essential tool for education while warning against plagiarism and advocating for cultural and literary awareness.

🧠 Generative AI and Arabic Language
Dr. Mohamed Selim Shousha concluded the session by exploring generative AI and the future of literary creativity in Arabic, highlighting neural networks that mimic human cognition and the centrality of linguistic and humanistic studies in generating meaning within AI systems.

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