Economist argues academics who teach writing shouldn't write in an AI voice
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-02
Economist Paul Novosad weighs in on the academic AI-writing debate: he distinguishes two commonly conflated things but takes the principled position that professional academics who teach students about voice and writing should write in their own voice, not an AI's. For disciplines that don't care about writing, he sees more of a gray area.
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