Darcy being curious. © Tom Marshall, 2017.

This report from the London School of Economics (LSE) includes available data related to issues with AI.

The LSE report is informative about AI and its environmental impacts. Another concern we have at T&D Copy-editing is how AI is becoming a substitute, in part or in full, for engaging our creativity when writing. I found that when I experimented with submitting my work through AI, it ‘flattened’ my writing style - it didn’t feel like my work. AI, in my opinion, cannot develop our disciplinary understanding and the nuances that we wish to develop in our writing. We read or hear about ‘the writer’s voice’ which we should nurture. We learn from making mistakes as we challenge our thinking, our writing styles and our personal, social and academic boundaries. But how can we really learn and grow when an autonomous, anonymous algorithm alters our work? The decision whether to use AI is the author’s. This AI policy is my personal perspective.