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

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?" Tangen's own gallery, a converted grain silo in the Norwegian seaside resort of Kristiansand, will open later this year to display one of the world's biggest collections of Nordic modernist art. Tangen has amassed more than 5,000 works by 300 artists.