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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Loffhagen

More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work

A woman lies on a bed reading a book
‘Novels contribute more than we can imagine to our society’. Photograph: Posed by model; Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images

More than half of published novelists in the UK believe artificial intelligence could eventually replace their work entirely, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge.

The study, conducted for the university’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, suggests widespread unease about the speed and scale of AI’s advance into the literary world.

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