This article describes a novel approach to teaching Artificial intelligence (AI) using artistic themes with a cohort of 20 high school students, ranging in age from 13 to 16 at the Beijing Academy, in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. The elective class was conducted online by U.S.-based teachers as part of an ongoing partnership to provide supplemental STEM outreach opportunities and mentoring to self-selected students in the United States and China interested in joining science fairs. The AI mini-course consisted of 10 two-hour lessons. Seventeen hours were instructional, while the last three hours were dedicated to helping students choose themes for their class projects, creating an artistic product with the help of AI, and presenting the project to their peers. Students used photography, painting, creating music, and writing poetry to tie specific concepts to AI. The goal with this approach was to highlight the key differences in computational thinking (teaching people to think like computers) versus AI thinking (teaching computers to think like people).