AI and the Future of Writing

https://yalereview.org/article/ai-and-the-future-of-writing This is the reading. "Anxiety, I think, is one of the dominant emotions that humanists and writers feel about AI. Is it justified? Is it just something we should learn to live with? MO’R I cannot answer that question for you. But what I can do is start to describe categories of what it’s like to use it and why that anxiety exists. First of all, the technology is new. Second, it’s going to displace some of what we hold most dear, such as the sanctuary of deep sustained attention, things like the possibility of the soul, of individual expressiveness. I believe in language as an art—as a place for thinking that isn’t transactional or corporatized, that allows for opacity, resistance, and difficulty. AI threatens that. It’s a kind of productivity amplifier in a world where we were already organized around overproduction. Third, when I go online now, I am surrounded by manufactured language, which is deadening. It threatens something I find important." Questions- What is inaccessible to AI that writers and philosophers have? Is…