Researcher Uses AI to Proofread His Book, Catches Pedantic Typos and Debates Neologisms
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-22
Anders Sandberg shares his experience proofreading his book with AI: it's both a delight and a chore — errors everywhere, but the model reliably surfaces tiny typos buried in reference lists and even gets into philological debates over the proper form of a neologism.
In the thread he adds that his own manual check, though far less thorough, caught equation errors the AI missed — a reminder that AI proofreading still needs human backup.
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