The modern technology landscape has been completely obsessed with A.I. of late, and there are a lot of questions surrounding just what it might one day be able to do. While there are certainly some tasks for which it may be useful, one place where it is being repeatedly rolled out is creative fields like A.I. art, which has been used to create lots of concepts from simple prompts, and writing. However, one author who isn’t worried about AI taking his job is Stephen King.
Speaking with The Times, King, who will see the latest adaptation of his work, The Long Walk, open this week, says that he’s not giving a great deal of thought to A.I., though he admits that younger writers, like his own sons, are absolutely worried about what the future holds for writers. While the future is certainly a question, King does think that, at least for a while, people will be significantly better at creative endeavors than a computer. He said:
