Before I sat down to write this piece, I did something I often warn my students against: I asked ChatGPT to write on ‘Reading in the Age of AI’ for me. Now, don’t get me wrong! As a professor who sternly cautions against the use of generative AI on account of ethical and climate concerns in the university classroom, I approached the prompt with a certain moral armour. My aim was purely forensic: to see what it would get wrong, an exposé to demonstrate with pedagogical flair, all the things humans are capable of doing better.

The moment I read the piece, I realised I had made a mistake. And it wasn’t because it was particularly bad, but because it was just good enough to hem in my own thinking. The irony is still not lost on me. In trying to critique the tool, I had let it shape the very c

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