A few weeks ago, I became briefly famous for the wrong reasons.
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about how I use AI in my work as an editor at Fortune — prompting drafts, synthesizing interviews, and accelerating a reporting process that used to take me twice as long. The response was swift, loud, and chaotic. The “journalism community” was divided as editors perked up and reporters recoiled. Strangers on the internet called me lazy. A few journalists told me privately they were doing the same thing and would never admit it. One reader asked to meet for coffee specifically to explain why I was wrong.
