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Authorial Work and the Use of AI
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I use artificial-intelligence tools routinely and without apology—as a thinking partner for interrogating ideas, as a research assistant for locating and summarising sources, and as a copy editor for matters of clarity, rhythm, and grammar. In this I am in step with standard practice in the senior professions: top-tier law firms, consultancies, and academic environments increasingly treat competent, disclosed use of AI as an expected part of good professional craft, and treat its avoidance as a lapse in that craft rather than a virtue.
What does not change is where authorial responsibility sits. The reasoning behind what is published is mine, the judgement that selects and rejects is mine, and the moral burden of belief that Friedrich's account of reasoned elaboration describes is mine. AI tools enlarge the workshop; they do not hold the chisel.
Where guests appear on the podcast, the words they speak are their own.
Evolving Views
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Last updated: 23 April 2026