One needn’t become a torch-wielding luddite to, at the very same time, be cautiously apprehensive about the widespread embrace of A.I., particularly generative A.I. for creative work such as writing.

Ancient pagans often credited the sun, moon, and stars with controlling human destiny. Indeed, the heavenly bodies were routinely numbered among the gods which these ancient cultures worshipped.

Should you manage to read a book a week over the course of your adult life, you will still have only read about 3,500 to 3,750 works in total—assuming, of course, that you began your reading journey at roughly age ten and continued diligently until around age 80, according to the math, or until your death—whichever should come first.