‘If artificial intelligence creates better art, what’s wrong with that?’ Top Norwegian investor and art collector Nicolai Tangen

The head investor of Norway's sovereign wealth fund worries more about AI affecting the country's portfolio than his own collection of paintings

For a prolific art collector, Nicolai Tangen is remarkably relaxed about the prospect of masterpieces created by robots. The threat of AI-made paintings, impossible to distinguish from human brushstrokes, has sparked soul-searching and paranoia in the art world, but not with Tangen.

Hey, if it creates better art that's fantastic," says the Norwegian philanthropist, art historian and boss of the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund. If you create something which is even more aesthetically pleasing, what's wrong about that?"