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Science Fiction Tried to Warn Us About AI. Or Did It?

François Truffaut once said that “every film about war ends up being pro-war,” his point being that once a writer or director makes war dramatic and exciting, they’ve implicitly endorsed it [...]. The same is true, I’d suggest, of all our AI Frankenstein stories. Yes, they warn us that AI will destroy us, but far louder than that, they promise that the future is going to be mind-blowing and epic.

Art Pollution: What Is AI Doing To Our Sense of Beauty?

Mary Poppins said, “Enough is as good as a feast”; in the case of art, I wonder if enough isn’t actually better than a feast.

AI, Nick Cave, and the Annihilation of the Human Heart

"Opposition to generative AI comes in many flavors. People worry about what these technologies will do to our jobs, about the intellectual property issues, about ramifications for education and entertainment, among many other things... Then there is the cry of existential despair."

Course Corrections: How to Be an Even Better Writing Teacher in the Age of ChatGPT

"Now that the spring semester is about to begin, I thought I’d share some of my developing ideas on how I’m going to adjust my approach to teaching writing."

The Strange Inversion: How Human-like Machines Reveal Our Robot-like Nature

"Opposition to generative AI comes in many flavors. People worry about what these technologies will do to our jobs, about the intellectual property issues, about ramifications for education and entertainment... Then there is the cry of existential despair."​​​

On My First Case of AI Plagiarism (If That’s the Word)

"It happened. My student used ChatGPT to write their final paper in my English class. How do I know? I don’t. That’s the problem."​​​​

Is ChatGPT Good for the World? And Who Will We Hold Accountable If It’s Not?

"When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world a couple of weeks back, it marked a clear line in the sand between the world we used to live in and the one we live in now."

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