A quote for April 2024.
If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity? What, if anything, sets us apart? And if AI does indeed supplant human writing, what will humans—both readers and writers—lose? The stakes feel tremendous, dwarfing any previous wave of automation. Written expression changed us as a civilisation; we recognise that so well that we use the invention of writing to demarcate the past into prehistory and history. The erosion of writing promises to be equally momentous.
—Samanth Subramanian
From ‘AI and the End of the Human Writer’ by Samanth Subramanian from The New Republic (22 April 2024).
Photography by Kelly Sikkema.
