Co-creative AI provides a robust application domain for AI. Co-creative applications can apply advanced machine learning and AI techniques to everyday creative use cases to assist the general population in everyday tasks as well as vocations. Co-creative AI can be a tool increase digital literacy as well as AI literacy. These systems are creatively engaging, interactive, and can teach about critically important computing concepts through a process of explainable AI. Furthermore, producing co-creative AI agents can inform researchers about the nature of creative cognition and co-creativity overall. This talk outlines co-creation as a paradigm for HCI and describes how the two fields can interface.