If AI can write, where does the thinking that happened through writing go?
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-09-15
Drawing on Richard Menary's paper 'Writing as Thinking,' the author argues that writing is part of cognition itself — we often discover what we think by drafting, revising, and rereading, not before. AI can now produce paragraphs, restructure arguments, and generate reflections in seconds, absorbing precisely the labor through which thinking used to happen. The open question: what happens to that thinking once AI does the writing?
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