Berkeley talk dissects what 'wrote it with AI' means: assistance vs automation
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-23
UC Berkeley's School of Information hosts Aarhus University professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen on Oct 30 for "Writing with AI: Tools, Taxonomies, and Trouble," built on a two-day workshop. It maps the lines between assistance, collaboration, delegation and automation — distinctions that matter to writers, teachers, institutions and readers. The author suggests sorting your last three AI-assisted pieces into those buckets to understand your own habits.
More from AGI Musings
- Anil Seth: Consciousness Is a Property of Life, Not Computation — Building Conscious AI Is a Bad Idea — anilkseth · 2026-10-23
- Pedro Domingos predicts 2027 will see the most security vulnerabilities fixed in history — pmddomingos · 2026-10-23
- AI+Lean theorem proving loses to Bitter Lesson: OpenAI math gains come from non-formalized reasoning — Singularitarian · 2026-10-23
- Beff Jezos calls for a 'cyber immune system' of constantly adaptive agents — beffjezos · 2026-10-23
- Pedro Domingos argues RL solves nothing that better generalization can't — pmddomingos · 2026-10-23
- Academic Writing in the AI Age: Do You Write for Humans or for LLM Reviewers? — JeremyNguyenPhD · 2026-10-23