Playwrights Discuss AI's Impact
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How playwrights have been dealing with the implications of AI for over a century

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Playwrights are concerned about how deeply AI will become entangled in the writing process.
The artists behind these plays reveal a justifiable obsession with how superintelligent AI might affect—or take over—the human creative process.
In 1920 , Karel apek may qualify as the first AI doomer, since his play dramatized an android uprising that slaughtered all of humanity.
The performance ends on an apparently chatbot-created Shakespearean note that left us wondering how much of the playwright’s work was generated by AI .
I had the vertiginous feeling that reality itself had been bent by the newly fuzzy line between thought and algorithm.
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