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ChatGPT is blurring the line between human and machine—which means uniquely human creativity is more important now than ever before.

Author of the First AI-Generated Novella, Death of an Author | Writer on AI for The New Yorker, The Atlantic

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If you ask ChatGPT to write a novel, are you the creator or the consumer? Stephen Marche says you’re both. Stephen “wrote” the first ever fully AI-generated novella, Death of an Author, by extensively prompting three different generative AI programs. “I am the creator of this work, 100 percent. But, on the other hand, I didn’t create the words,” he told The New York Times, which ran a front-page profile on him. Stephen is a novelist with a PhD in Shakespeare who’s been following and writing about AI for years in outlets like The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and has developed a personal connection with the foremost innovators in the field. He has a unique understanding of how the line between human and machine is blurring, and he’ll show you why the arts, the humanities, and human creativity are more important now than ever before.

Death of an Author is the best example yet of the great writing that can be done with an LLM like ChatGPT. It’s clearly the product of an astute author and a machine with the equivalent of a million PhDs in genre fiction.”WIRED

Stephen Marche has predicted the effects generative AI will have on industries since 2019. Now, his predictions are coming true. As one example, the release of ChatGPT is challenging everything within education, giving us the opportunity to rethink the role of teachers, students, and what education is even for. “We’ve been teaching students how to write like machines for a long time,” Stephen says, “and now we’re going to have to teach them how to write like human beings.”

Stephen explores the thorny problems that plague humanity, whether that’s political polarization, inequality, or the complex yet promising generative AI technology. “Artificial intelligence is an ethical quagmire,” he writes in “The Chatbot Problem,” published in The New Yorker. The piece explores the gendered and racialized implications of our speech and how that bias can be encoded in our technology. Stephen poses the question: What is an ethical framework for the distribution of language? And more importantly, what does language do to people?

By collaborating with AI like ChatGPT, Stephen wrote the first AI-generated novella, titled Death of an Author. He wrote the book by using three different AI programs—ChatGPT, Sudowrite, and Cohere—and his work was profiled in The New York Times. WIRED praised it as “required reading for anyone who wants to think seriously about the future of LLM-assisted writing,” saying that it “prophesies the future of AI novels.”

Stephen has written for The AtlanticThe New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalThe New Yorker, and Esquire. Stephen is also the author of the blockbuster book The Next Civil War. This stunning piece of speculative non-fiction “should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government” (The New York Times Book Review). His previous books include three novels: Hunger of the WolfRaymond and Hannah, and Shining at the Bottom of the Sea.

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Feedback on Stephen has been wonderful! Very good speaker and interesting topic. We would like to have him back next year.

Medical Review Institute of America

Speech Topics

Artificial Intelligence
The Chatbot ProblemArtificial Intelligence and the Future of Language
We are moving towards a world in which machines will be intelligent enough to create language. But what are the consequences of such a leap? Journalist Stephen Marche is fascinated with the coming implications that natural language processing will have on our lives and work. “Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed,” he writes in the New Yorker
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Politics & Society
The Next Civil WarDispatches From the American Future
Could the United States be swiftly careening toward a violent end? In his book The Next Civil War, author and cultural critic Stephen Marche considers a number of scenarios around which a civil war might emerge, from the assasination of a president to the rise of armed militias to natural disasters creating rampant food insecurity. Far from being alarmist, these hypothetical cat...
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