AI Policy

AI writing is ubiquitous on the internet, and I think my own use of it in writing should be transparent. My goal is to use AI to make my work product better, not to replace it.

This is how I use AI on this Substack.

Research: I will often ask for summaries of thinkers, philosophers, and theologians. If I want to use those summaries in my writing, I ask for citations or links so I can attribute properly.

Copyediting: I use AI for grammar and spelling issues, but not for stylistic edits.

Critique: I regularly use AI to criticize my arguments and identify weaknesses in my work so that I can address them—but not to have AI solve those problems for me.

Composition: I instruct my personal Chat GPT account not to offer me composition. What I read during AI research often informs what I write, though I try to rewrite everything in my own voice and conception. There are also occasionally sentences that are written they way they are because of something I read in my AI research or from the critique I received from AI. Again, hard to know what the line between citing and not citing is. If in doubt, I will try to cite the source or the AI conversation.

I also wrote on the ethics of AI here.