Is writing thinking? Our new volume holds 16 essays by professional creative writers - @sashastiles, @RealIainSThomas, @jamesjyu, @jasminbf, Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Annelyse Gelman, Qiufan Chen, Sheila Heti, and others - reflecting on writing in the time of AI. All books are currently 50% off with the code SPRING 26, making it cost $10. The preorder delivery date is now in late September @UofMPress

The Creativity and Co-Creation part of TEXT: Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text is busy at work on multiple projects! See descriptions on the link below, from authorship and fanfic to AI architectures and AI use surveys.

- Måske vil AI tvinge os til at gentænke, hvad det præcis er, vi skal gøre med kunsten, hvad det er for en impuls, som kendetegner det unikke menneskelige. @madsrt , DG-centret TEXT, i interview om AI’s indflydelse på vores skrivekultur. pov.international/interview-…

Hvad sker der med vores læseevner i en verden, hvor AI er blevet en fast del af hverdagen? @madsrt, leder af Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text, er medforfatter på kronik i Kristeligt Dagblad👇🔒 kristeligt-dagblad.dk/debat/…

Switched platforms from Medium to Sub...stack. Starting with a summary of yesterday's talk on biohacking:

The Journal of World Literature is accepting abstracts for a special issue on Artificial Intelligence and World Literature. Topics include multilingualism & AI, distant reading, non-English case studies, and more. Submit your abstract to our emails by September 1.

Cover by Agnieszka Kurant Featuring my Introduction: Navigating a New Topos and essays by the amazing writers - Allison Parrish, Language Models and Desire: A Lexicon - Ted Chiang, Why AI Won’t Make Art Easy to Make - Annelyse Gelman, The Death of the Death of the Author 1/3

A great and engaged review of Artificial Humanities by AI developer: "What lifts the book into something genuinely energizing is its refusal to stop at diagnosis. Artificial humanities is proposed not as a critique perched safely on the sidelines but as an operating principle."

In her new book, UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš explores how art, history and literature provide a window into AI development, revealing a hopeful — and cautionary — path forward for humanity. news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/01…

The winner of Publisher of the Year (sponsored by @worldofbookshq) is @BloomsburyBooks ✨ “You can feel the energy and passion in everything it does," said the judges #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

Leveraging her background in comparative literature and knowledge of generative AI, @BerkeleyISchool and @UCBHistory's Nina Beguš pitted hundreds of humans against generative AI platforms. Humans wrote more creative stories, but AI is advancing — quickly. news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/28…

Skal vi have robotter som konfliktmæglere i fremtiden? Romaner skrevet af AI? Vi spørger prof. i filosofi Johanna Seibt og prof. i litteraturhistorie @madsrt. #Podcast af @DetUngeAkademi og VidenSkaber, med støtte fra @Carlsbergfondet, @lundbeckfonden og @novonordiskfond

SmukScience? Eller forskning til festivalfolket om hvordan man måler lyset hastighed - i øl! 🎓🍻 Til @Smukfest var der fuldt program i en Science Pavillion med fascinerende og underholdende forskning. Mød Ulrik Uggerhøj, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Peter Hald og Jens Chr Bjerring👇🏻

Forskningen er i den grad til stede på årets @Smukfest med Science Pavilion, der er arrangeret af @CERN. I dag har publikum oplevet kemishow med Peter Hald Ulrik Uggerhøj også fra Kemi, der viste måling af lysets hastighed i øl, og Mads R. Thomsen fra Litteratur om AI & Tekst.

I look forward to @ulf_db and Ea Lindhardt Overgaard's online @clai_aarhusuni talk on disciplinary voice and generative AI at 1.30 pm later today: cc.au.dk/en/clai/events/arti….

Lindsay Weinberg gives a @clai_aarhusuni short talk on "AI and the Politics of Refusal" April 18 at 1.30 pm CET: cc.au.dk/en/clai/events/arti…

"William Banks does not try to oversell Brandes’s influence or contribution but shows how Brandes develops his thinking...from concrete conflicts." Mads Rosendahl Thomsen on Georg Brandes's Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples, from @UWiscPress: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu…

On February 7, @mads Rosendahl Thomsen, @Rebekah Baglini and Kasper Fyhn Borg hosted a visit from VIA University College's International film program to present on the state-of-the-art of Large Language Models, and on AI and creativity. An intense morning with engaged students!

A major step towards the #AI Act. Based on a simple idea: The riskier the AI, the greater the liabilities for developers. For example, if used to sort applicants for a job, or being admitted to an education programme. That’s why the #AI Act focuses on the high risk cases.

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers." They took the emotional arcs of 1300 novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech to analyze the emotional arcs, and then identified 6 patterns seen over and over again in western storytelling. Here they are: 1. Rags to Riches (rise) Your classic underdog tale. A humble, hardworking peasant climbs the mountain to pull the sword from the stone. • Rocky • King Arthur • The Pursuit of Happiness 2. Riches to Rags (fall) Maybe the saddest story of them all. A journey from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. • King Lear • Citizen Kane • Scarlet Letter 3. Man in a Hole (fall then rise) A character’s doing fine, gets herself into a huge problem, but figures out how to overcome it. They often end up better than they started. “You see this story again and again,” Vonnegut says. “People love it, and it is not copyrighted.” • The Martian • The Hunger Games • Shawshank Redemption 4. Icarus (rise then fall) The hero goes on a meteoric rise up New York (or some other) society, calls everyone “old sport,” and throws the wildest parties in town. Then reality sets in, and he realizes he’s too close to the sun. • Macbeth • Great Gatsby • Death of a Salesman 5. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise) I’ll leave this description to Vonnegut: “We’re gonna start way down here. Worse than that, who is so low? It’s a little girl… the shoe fits, and she achieves off-scale happiness.” • Red Rising • Slumdog Millionaire • The Count of Monte Cristo This is my personal favorite. 6. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall) Up until the ~70% mark of the story it looks like things are sunshine and rainbows. Walter White goes from high school teacher to king of the drug lords, if you will. Then all goes wrong. The original fall is often not their doing while the final fall is. • Hamlet • Gone Girl • Breaking Bad My 3 takeaways: 1. Rags to Riches, Oedipus, and Cinderella rank as the three most popular with consumers. AKA, those books sold the most copies. 2. When you think through a story, give it an emotional shape. Literally draw it. X axis: Time Y axis: Ill fortune to good fortune You might be surprised how much it helps you craft your plot (I was shocked). 3. Vonnegut was a damn genius.