🤖 Q&A: Exploring The Ethics of AI in Writing w/ Michael Dean
​How can you make Scrivener work for you as your most powerful, flexiHow do we protect human voice, judgment, and originality while using new tools responsibly? And what does “quality” even mean in an age of algorithms?
​Michael Dean is a writer and thinker focused on essay craft, structure, and the invisible patterns that shape great writing. His work challenges the idea that quality is purely subjective, arguing instead that strong essays follow learnable, human-centered constraints—and that understanding those constraints can liberate writers rather than limit them.
​In this Q&A, we’ll explore the ethical questions raised by AI in writing—not from the perspective of automation or productivity, but from the standpoint of craft, judgment, and culture. Michael will share his belief that while many AI tools aim to replace writing, the most promising ones act as editors: asking better questions, revealing blind spots, and helping writers see their work more clearly.
​We’ll explore:
​Where AI crosses the line from editor to author
​Whether writing quality can be measured—and what’s at stake if it is
​The difference between automating prose and supporting revision
​How algorithms shape what gets seen, read, and valued
​What ethical responsibility writers have when using AI tools
​How we might build systems that reward depth, clarity, and originality
​This Q&A invites open, critical discussion. Come curious, skeptical, and ready to think together about what we want writing culture to become.
​About Michael Dean
​Over the last 4 years, Michael Dean been obsessed with reading, writing, and editing essays. Before that he was an architect and a virtual reality specialist. Now he'd developing Essay Architecture through an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship grant, and leading the Editor program at Write of Passage.
​​**Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour PT session, in the same room.**Â
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