"Programs don't think or feel": the ethics-of-AI-writing argument, restated
davetroy · x · 2026-09-25
In a debate with @ARozenshtein, @davetroy argued that people whose job is writing have an ethical duty to be correct, while computer programs do not think or feel — they merely manipulate numbers and produce output that, he quipped, has overwhelmed his interlocutor's capacity for sensemaking. A representative volley in the ongoing argument over AI writing and professional ethics, later drawing philosophical pushback on reductionism.
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