No more writers? On AI and creative writing

As a lyricist, I am often asked: are you afraid of being replaced by AI? My response is: better hope than fear. This essay is primarily a collection of my experiences and reflections from the perspective of creative writing pedagogy and practice. It is also my hope to reorient our thinking and practices, to change our concern from what AI is able to do, to how AI enables us. It is a move from reality to imagination, to alternatives, to affordances. I plead for a bifurcation of concern: from product to process; from performance to pleasure; from property to partnership. When we fear AI may supersede human beings, I hope we will continue writing, and in the meantime utter: it’s such a privilege to write.