Authors, editors, and publishers must assert the value of academic writing in an age of exploitative automation.

What exactly makes English sound human, or sound like AI? And does it matter if AI English never truly achieves a human feel? I research the institutionalization of English. There is a long, ...

Do you remember the days when searching for items online meant typing stiff, robotic phrases into search engines? For businesses that sought to boost rankings, this meant identifying valuable terms, ...

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...

Having previously explored a study that suggests AI is making us stupider, it comes as no surprise that it might be because it is rewiring the way we think. And it's even less of a surprise when we ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...

The cover of "The World in a Phrase" beside author James Geary. (Courtesy of James Geary) Author James Geary loves aphorisms, those short, witty statements that often contain profound truths. In 2005, ...

From job displacement and plagiarism to questions about accuracy and privacy risks, generative artificial intelligence — or genAI — is fraught the kinds of issues you’d expect from such disruptive ...

Many professors in the humanities are giving up on assigning papers. Working against the tsunami of AI writing is exhausting and disheartening. Those with heavy course loads can’t do it anymore. But ...

If a Gen Alpha tween said, “Let him cook,” would you know what that meant? No? AI doesn’t either. A research paper written by soon-to-be ninth grader Manisha Mehta was presented this week at the ACM ...

Do you find you're often saying you want to "delve into" an issue or "navigate the landscape" of it? Or perhaps the latest version of your CV says that you're "adept" at being "meticulous"? If so, ...