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The Problem with A.I. Writing is the Problem is an Artificial Life: You Lose Agency

The Problem with A.I. Writing is the Problem is an Artificial Life: You Lose Agency

What a recent MIT study on A.I. can tell us about ourselves

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Jun 19, 2025
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This week a group of researchers at MIT’s Media Lab released a “pre-publication” paper on the effects of using A.I. to write papers, specifically SAT essays. Pre-publication means that it has not been peer-reviewed yet, so facts on the ground may change in the coming year, but it’s a promising paper. The study was compr…

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