from Paul Graham | by Paul Graham

How should schools teach writing now that AI can do it? Should they allow AI or ban it? They should do both. They should have classes where students use AI. But they should also have classes where students learn to write without using AI at all.

The reason is that writing isn't just producing a stream of words. Ultimately, learning to write is learning to think. You don't want to stop learning that.

The standard midwit reply to this argument is that the arrival of AI is no different from the arrival of electronic calculators. But the two cases are very different. There's much more thinking in writing. Or at least, there *should* be.