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The article aims to explore the importance between literary imagination and liberal arts education for the next generation in the AI era. Liberal arts education is the key to the competency of the future. In this regard, universities motivates students to develop Four C’s essential competencies of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. In this context, this study suggests that a literary text is one of the most creative and effective tools for them to enhance their capabilities. In particular, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Literature Laureate, can be utilized the effective literary text for liberal arts education in the AI era by embodying the quintessential vision for AI and offering insight for the positive possibility of co-existence between human beings and AI. Therefore, the literary text like Ishiguro’s novel about the friendship between AI robot, Klara and human beings can be used one of the most useful tools for students’ capabilities integrating knowledge based on creativity and imagination. In conclusion, it is essential for students to strengthen literary imagination for creative liberal arts education through reading English literature to prepare for the AI era.