Oxford scholar pushes back on AI-writing snobbery: judge ideas, not provenance
StefanoGogioso · x · 2026-09-14
Oxford quantum computing scholar Stefano Gogioso pushed back on the "if you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it" stance, arguing ghostwriting has existed for ages and certain uses of AI differ little.
His core points:
- Some people have profound ideas worth sharing but are too busy to write, or simply aren't wordsmiths; a reasonably polished AI-assisted version beats not communicating at all.
- He supports avoiding slop, but screenshotting an AI-detection "pangram" to dismiss someone's writing is "a special kind of snobbery."
- More troubling: it betrays an inability to assess the actual conceptual payload of the writing.
Context: Charlie Bull had argued that since AI can generate reams of compelling text for a fraction of a cent, everyone must get pickier about what they read.
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