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Derek Thompson

What Derek Thompson thinks about AI writing

@derek-thompson · 20 positions · 0 changes of mind

Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein and a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025.

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  1. Our readingAI is removing human involvement from entry-level hiring by pitting AI-written job applications against AI-written screening filters.

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    Their wordsArtificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."

    ↗Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AIderekthompson.org 2nd of 2 in this piece

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  3. Our readingAI-generated writing will match or surpass human writing within about a decade.

    Their wordsThere is a good argument that AI writing will be as good as human writing, possibly even surpass human writing within the next decade.

    ↗We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org 3rd of 3 in this piece