Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing by Baron, Naomi S.
Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing by Baron, Naomi S.

Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing

Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would...
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Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing by Baron, Naomi S.

Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing

$67.95
Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing by Baron, Naomi S.

Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing

$67.95
Author: Naomi S. Baron
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter?

Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we gain and lose when heeding its siren call? To understand how AI is redefining what it means to write and think, linguist and educator Naomi S. Baron leads us on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's technology. From nineteenth-century lessons in composition, to mathematician Alan Turing's work creating a machine for deciphering war-time messages, to contemporary engines like ChatGPT, Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection and unique expression.

Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the extent to which we collaborate with AI. The technology is here to stay. Baron shows us how to work with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable cognitive and social benefits of being literate.



Author: Naomi S. Baron
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781503633223

About the Author
Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American University. Of her nine earlier books, her most recent are How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio (2021), Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World (2015), and Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008). She has appeared on Good Morning America, 20/20, CNBC, and CNN, and her writing has been widely published, including in theNew York Times, theLos Angeles Times, theWashington Post, and The Conversation.
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