More and more artists from all over the world are engaging in the production of AI art. Because of this, art historians need to start thinking about how the histories of AI art should be articulated. This paper aims to take part in this conversation by addressing the problem of whether the AIs created by human artists should be considered as artists too in the discourse of art and its history. By building on previous research on ethics, consciousness, authorship, creatorship, and intent, this paper presents a number of arguments as to whether or not anthropocentrism should be abandoned in the writing of AI art’s histories.