Over the last year, I have been trying to understand why I have been uninterested so far to intentionally use AI chatbots and also not majorly alarmed by them when it comes to teaching writing. Recently, Meghan O’Rourke wrote an essay that helped me realize why.

AI does not have a conscience. Why relate to a conscienceless thing as if it were personal?  

On the side of writing, the same analogously: to write is an act of conscience, always to some degree. Chatbot use largely begins by severing the way the word is an act of conscience. When we write, we give our word.

Chatbots cannot give theirs. We can try to take over what the machine does and speak it as our own personal voice. But we have entered into a force field that resembles the interpersonal with all its accountability of voice and judgment, but with none of its subterranean connection, affiliation, and morality. Moreover, we have lost the place of searching for words in our hearts.

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