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Rebecca Winthrop
I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given over my spatial reasoning to Google Maps. I use artificial intelligence (AI) to chase down articles, do research, fix my grammar mistakes and whip up last-minute school-night recipes.
But I’ve recently drawn a sharp line in the sand: No AI for writing.
