'In public discussions of Artificial Intelligence people have, for the most part, focused on how it will affect employment and the reliability of news. These are certainly serious matters that will relatively soon affect the livelihood of many individuals and the shape of society. They also prompt us to ask, as AI becomes more varied and sophisticated, how it might change our understanding of ourselves as human beings. To grapple with this large question it may be helpful to ask more apparently playful and peripheral questions. One such question asks whether AI could write good poetry.' (Introduction)