Proposed changes to copyright law would deny what makes us human, says Helen Ward. Plus letters from Jason Mills and Daniel Heuman

Your article (Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album, 25 February) quotes a government spokesperson: “As it stands, the UK’s current regime for copyright and AI is holding back the creative industries, media and AI sector from realising their full potential.”

To suggest that an artist’s full potential can only be reached with the help of artificial intelligence is to dismiss what makes us human and to ignore the vast scope, power and achievement of thousands of years of human creativity. Genuine creativity is not about full potential – it is about imagination and learning, about continually asking and answering questions; it is a process.