Is AI Writing Like Paying Someone to Exercise for You?

Season 2, episode 1 of Thought Mining. Nathan brings the thought, which started with a Cal Newport op-ed about technology making us intellectually lazy. Derek tells the story of a creative director who now spends her days answering AI-written emails, and asks whether writing like a normal person will someday mark you as out of touch. From there: James Patterson and his ghostwriters, an e-bike nobody pedals, the Borg, and whether you can still make a fire. And if you can’t, do you still have a soul?

Thought Mining is Derek Olson and Dr. Nathan Anderson taking one thought and staying with it for 30 minutes.