Of all the sectors that artificial intelligence is disrupting--finance, health care, transportation--the creative art of fiction writing seems like the least likely candidate to be impacted by A.I. But A.I. has arrived like a gift-wrapped box on the doorstep of the author community. Or do we need to worry that what's inside will put authors out of a job? It turns out that a new fiction-savvy bot is not out to take the place of the next Hemingway, Steinbeck or Atwood. Nor is it out to displace editors or other humans.

Of all the sectors that artificial intelligence is disrupting--finance, health care, transportation--the creative art of fiction writing seems like the least likely candidate to be impacted by A.I. But A.I. has arrived like a gift-wrapped box on the doorstep of the author community.