The Future Is Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Literary World

Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world faster than most people can compute. For many in the literary world, the picture it paints is largely dystopian—especially when considering the ambitions of Big Tech and financial market executives.

Join The Cener for Fiction for a timely panel conversation about technology and moral responsibility in the age of AI with Dashiel Carrera, author of The Deer and Visiting Researcher in Computer Science at Columbia University; Tuhin Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department in Stony Brook University (SUNY); and Bruce Holsinger, author of Culpability and Professor of English at the University of Virginia, moderated by Maris Kreizman, columnist, essayist, and author of I Want to Burn This Place Down.

How will AI reshape critical thinking, storytelling, the publishing world, and the labor market for writers? And how can authors advocate for themselves and each other in the face of seemingly unchecked power and wealth? Together, the group will explore how fiction can illuminate the ethical stakes of emerging technologies—and what it can reveal about responsibility, power, and the futures we are already building.