BRET STEPHENS: I'm begging you: Never write with AI | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

A column by Bret Stephens is framed as a plea: don’t use artificial intelligence to help you write. He argues that users shouldn’t let AI draft school papers, work briefs, letters, speeches, or emails, nor use it to structure notes or create first drafts. For Stephens, the core concern is deception—passing off words, ideas, or information as one’s own when they aren’t—even if an acknowledgment can mitigate the ethical issue. He also says AI is mentally enfeebling and could weaken both individual writing habits and society’s capacity to reason. He contends writing forces thinking through grammar, intelligibility, coherence, and accountability, giving words moral weight.