Who Wrote This?
AI and the Future
of Human Creativity
Sunday, 15 November 2026 · 7:00 PM Doha time · QAR 150
About the Talk
AI can now write a poem, paint a picture, compose a song and draft your emails. When a machine helps make something, whose work is it, and what happens to the way we think and create? Drawing on his research into authorship and style, Dr. Mikros explores what generative AI is changing about creativity, originality and the human voice.
Three questions we’ll talk through
- What makes a piece of work recognisably yours, and what happens to that when AI can imitate it?
- If we lean on AI to draft, design and decide, do we start to think differently, and does everything start to look and sound the same?
- When something is made with AI, who deserves the credit and who takes responsibility?
Read the full description
AI tools can now produce essays, images, music and ideas in seconds, and many of us already use them to write messages, plan our work or brainstorm. This Qahwa Talk asks what that means for creativity, and for the people doing the creating.
Dr. Mikros studies authorship: the small, often unconscious choices that make one person's work distinguishable from another's. Starting from those clues, we will look at what happens to them when AI edits, rewrites or imitates what we make, and why working out who made something is only part of deciding who deserves credit and who takes responsibility.
From art and music to everyday decisions at work, we will consider what it means to create and think alongside a machine: the new room it gives us to experiment, and the risks to originality, trust and independent thinking when everyone uses the same tools.
Designed as an open conversation for anyone, whatever you make or do, the evening invites us to reflect on the role of human intention, experience and judgment, and on how we might use AI while keeping the perspectives that make our work worth sharing.
About the Speaker
Dr. George Mikros
Professor & Associate Dean of Research, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
A computational linguist who studies authorship and writing style. Founder of the Computational Stylistics Lab at the University of Athens and past President of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics.
Full biography
George Mikros is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Hamad Bin Khalifa University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, where he coordinates the MA Program in Digital Humanities and Societies. For two decades he was Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Athens, where he founded and led the Computational Stylistics Lab. A past President of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics, he has published 5 monographs and more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, and has given keynotes in over 50 countries on AI, large language models, digital humanities, and forensic linguistics.
The Evening
All times are Doha time (GMT+3).
Good to Know
The secret location
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Tickets & refunds
Full refund if you cancel at least 48 hours before the event (by 7:00 PM on Friday, 13 November). After that, tickets can't be refunded. To cancel, email info@qahwatalks.com.
Small and first-come seating
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Sunday, 15 November 2026 · Doors 7:00 PM (Doha time) · QAR 150
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