Good Afternoon,
When AI can spin out endless essays in seconds and whole novels in minutes, what’s left for human writers? The Atlantic makes the case that AI writing’s smooth blandness is exactly what hands human literature its opening, because value shifts from the words to the why something exists in the first place (The Atlantic). A professor grading a semester of suspiciously fluent essays is less hopeful about what AI does to how students think (The New Yorker), and the Boston Review asks whether outsourcing reasoning itself to machines amounts to a slow collapse of knowledge (Boston Review).
Not done with the Kennedy Center yet. The KC board has set up a new endowment, named — are you surprised? — after Donald Trump (CBS News).
And here’s innovation at the micro-level. Broke but inventive, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre is splitting its top job three ways instead of hunting for a single savior (Yahoo) — a constraint treated as a design problem.
Lighter note: the pointe shoe is long overdue for reinvention, if only ballerinas would let anyone touch it (Dance Magazine).
See you tomorrow.
Doug
