Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Writing Profession: Sunset or Sunrise?

Almost 30 years ago I stood on the steps of a converted Armenian dance hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about to start my first day at an MIT startup called Gold Hill Computers. They were the first company to develop software that enabled companies to build expert systems applications on a PC platform. The focus in the 1980s for AI was on industries such as aerospace and defense, computer-aided design and engineering, software engineering, financial services, manufacturing, medicine and science. Never at that point in time did I consider that algorithms could be applied to my own profession in communications. And yet that is just what has happened.