Paul Graham and AI Scholars: Handwritten Emails Become the New 'Proof of Thought'
michael_nielsen · x · 2026-08-06
Investor Paul Graham stated that if he receives an email seemingly written by AI, he will paste it into a detection tool rather than reading it. This sparked a discussion on the proliferation of AI content: scholars like Michael Nielsen pointed out that 'writing used to be proof of thought.' Now that AI ghostwriting is ubiquitous, artisanal (human-written) emails have become a rare credential of authenticity, leading many to simply delete AI-generated emails lacking evidence of human thought.
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