Tom Junod says: "The idea that AI can write is founded on the idea that there is no soul." And he learned something surprising by organizing his books in chronological order... "The organization of those books tells its own story and the story is of humanity. Everything it does is essentially wrong. We mess up again and again and again. Any piece of technology that we develop we either got from or put to use in war. Any sort of religion that we talk about is wrong and a tool of tyranny. I mean, we mess up again and again and again. And yet, for every mess, there's a writer. Somebody who's grappling with the mess up and bearing witness to the pain and the suffering and the joy and the hope and the whole freaking show. And you see it. I can tell you the whole story: Modernism comes from World War I. Beat America and Jack Kerouac comes out of World War II. You can just see that writers are there to address this flow of history. I would say that it's like the only thing maybe that humanity has ever really done right is bear witness to its own thing. That's the soul. It's the part of us that bears witness to the truth, to ourselves, to God, all of it. That's the soul. What I'm winding up into is like a long anti-AI speech because like, why the would we ever want to give that up? It's like the one thing that we can do."