Grimes says some AI is already conscious

“We've just completely told everyone that reading and writing are not important, the humanities are not important.”

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Grimes said that the ability to speak, write, and read well may become increasingly valuable in the age of AI.

“Whenever there's a master of the word, it just moves past anything else,” she said, citing artists like Lana Del Rey and Alice Longyu Gao. “You start realizing how rare it is for someone to write something really new, especially in music.”