This is a nice, short essay from PG about the future when a significant portion of the population won’t be able to write (or, more likely, need to write due to AI). Just like calculators have undermined our numeracy, AI will kill the writing skill for a lot of (the majority of) us:
The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. Some of us like it. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can’t write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can’t write, there will just be good writers and people who can’t write.
Source: Writes and Write-Nots
Wrote about this before, Writing is Thinking.
Leave a Reply