{"id":223501,"date":"2026-03-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/i-promise-ai-didnt-write-this-column-and-if-its-after-my-job-itll-be-over-my-dead-body\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:30:10","slug":"i-promise-ai-didnt-write-this-column-and-if-its-after-my-job-itll-be-over-my-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/i-promise-ai-didnt-write-this-column-and-if-its-after-my-job-itll-be-over-my-dead-body\/","title":{"rendered":"I promise AI didn’t write this column, and if it’s after my job, it’ll be over my dead body"},"content":{"rendered":"

I promise AI didn’t write this column, and if it’s after my job, it’ll be over my dead body<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-03-14\/lopez-column-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-14 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

For quite a while now, someone has been living inside my computer, writing emails for me.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t recall signing up for this artificial intelligence feature, which is like having a word valet. It\u2019s in my phone, too, which offers three serviceable but impersonal responses I can fire off to someone who has just sent me an email pitching a story or asking if I want to meet for coffee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to do coffee,\u201d was one of the suggested responses to a recent email. \u201cLet me circle back soon about timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

One argument for these features is that they can save time and free me up for more important tasks. But it takes longer for me to read the three fabricated email options than it would take to write my own response.<\/p>\n

I find this really irritating for about 150 reasons, one of which is that in an ever-automated world, it\u2019s another nail in the coffin of human interaction. And yes, there are at least 150 reasons. I know because I asked AI and it spit them out in approximately three seconds. No. 148: \u201cIt sounds like it\u2019s written by a committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

A fair share of nasty feedback lands in my mailbox, so I wondered if the auto-response tool could come in handy. But the robot isn\u2019t salty enough to be of service. \u201cThanks for reading\u201d was the suggested reply to someone who called me a hopeless loon and another guy who wondered why anybody would read my \u201cdumb column.\u201d<\/p>\n

On second thought, maybe the unruffled, dismissive response is the way to go. But the bigger concern is what happens to human intelligence as artificial intelligence does more of our writing, researching, communicating and thinking.<\/p>\n

If a middle school, high school or college student can easily use a computer tool to fire off a book report or an essay, what\u2019s the impact on vocabulary, grammar, reading, critical thinking, originality, intellectual curiosity?<\/p>\n

On learning?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no nose like an English teacher\u2019s nose,\u201d said Mike Finn, a recently retired L.A. Unified instructor who said…<\/p>\n

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