CHRIS THURMAN: Thinking about writing and writing about thinking
Two films at the Encounters film festival focus on the effects of artificial intelligence in our lives
23 May 2025 - 05:00
I’m a writer. I write for money. I write for pleasure (not including emails). Writing gives me a challenge, a sense of meaning, a purpose. Part of my job, until recently, was teaching people how to write — or how to think by writing. This also meant teaching people how to read properly.
For a decade or two, another unpleasant sub-activity of my day job as a university professor was figuring out whether my students had actually written what they presented as their writing. Now this task has morphed into figuring out when the intelligence on display in their essays is human, and when it is artificial. ..
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