Greg Conti says AI could erase authorship before expanding into wider human labor
wfithian · x · 2026-07-28
Greg Conti argues that AI is not just changing math or academic work, but could erase authorship itself and the inspiration people draw from clearly human achievement.
The quoted essay frames frontier AI development as a broader civilizational choice, warning that the same logic could extend from writers and scholars to more of human labor unless development is paused.
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