This writing-intensive course surveys and analyzes accounts of AI-generated writing, while reflecting on the ramifications of AI for human writing practices. In other words: how do we write about—as well as with—writing machines? How are emergent AI writing technologies reshaping human writing cultures in STEM fields and beyond? How, in turn, do accounts of and interactions with writing machines shape cultural conceptions of human writers and thinkers, as well as technological frontiers for AI developers? What does it mean to write for someone else, or to let someone or something else write for us? How do preoccupations fundamental to all writing—audience, context, aims, and aesthetics—shape both non-human and human writing?

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Course is not repeatable for credit.

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