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Who Wrote This?

How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing

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Who Wrote This?

By: Naomi S. Baron
Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
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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 listeners a spirited overview of the emergence of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. Baron cautions that 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. 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.

The book is published by Stanford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2023 Naomi S. Baron (P)2024 Redwood Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

"Insightful and witty, comprehensive and entertaining." (Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society)

"In this must-read book, Naomi S. Baron takes a broad historical and philosophical perspective on our rapid implementation of AI." (Adriaan van der Weel, author of Changing Our Textual Minds)

"Authoritative, insightful, and a joy to read, Who Wrote This? is an invaluable source." (Anne Mangen, University of Stavanger)

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