Here are a few of the resources that I have found useful in researching AI and its role in writing.
General advice about AI, writing, and teaching
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI, by John Warner, gets specifically to the questions of writing. It’s also a love letter to the writing process.
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. Great insight into AI and teaching, and the chapter on teaching writing offered many ideas I had not considered.
Ethan Mollick has a wonderful Substack, One Useful Thing, exploring the implications of AI. He also wrote the book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI.
I also try to keep current by listening to the Hard Fork podcast, and talking with my son.
Surveys about writing and AI
I learn a lot by speaking with fellow writers. But to do that at scale, you need surveys. Here are a couple useful ones:
Gotham Ghostwriters and Josh Bernoff surveyed hundreds of authors in the AI in the Writing Profession Study
Bookbub published a survey of more than 1200 authors: How Authors are Thinking About AI
Publishing and AI
If you want to publish a book with a traditional publisher, you’ll need to pay attention to their AI policies and the shifting landscape of copyright law. You can find a lot of conflicting guidance.
In matters like this, I always turn to Jane Friedman. Check out her AI and Publishing: FAQ for Writers.
AI Disclosure Forms
Want to be transparent about where and how you use AI? (That’s a very good idea.) Here are a couple ways to do it.
Josh Bernoff offers a simple, comprehensive disclosure form.
The poet and filmmaker Dave Malone has created another disclosure that differentiates between AI-assisted and AI-generated creative content.
