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He wrote an essay titled The End of the Working Writer that gets at a lot of this stuff.

Elizabeth Spiers is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, the host of Slate's Money podcast, and a digital strategist who also teaches writing.

You may also know her as the founding editor of Gawker.

She recently wrote a column with the evocative title Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Write a Professional Op-ed By Me, a Professional Op-ed Writer Who Has Less Real Competition If You Do.

Elizabeth, what about you?

Yeah.

So I'm a writer, and I, I co-host Slate Money, which is Slate's finance news podcast of the week.

So I have to, you know, I write about AI.

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What Next TBD is produced by Evan Campbell, Madeline Tempst-Ducharme, and Patrick Ford.

Paige Osborne is the senior supervising producer for What Next and What Next TBD.

Mia Lobel is the executive producer of podcasts here at Slate.

And Ben Richmond is the senior director of podcast operations.

I'm Lizzie O'Leary.

Paul Ford is a writer, technologist, and co-founder of the software company Abord.

And full disclosure, Abord is a Slate advertiser.

That is our show for today.

What Next TBD is produced by Evan Campbell, Madeline Tempst-Ducharme, and Patrick Ford.

Paige Osborne is the senior supervising producer for What Next and What Next TBD.

Mia Lobel is the executive producer of podcasts here at Slate.

And Ben Richmond is the senior director of podcast operations.

I'm Lizzie O'Leary.

Paul Ford is a writer, technologist, and co-founder of the software company Abord.

And full disclosure, Abord is a Slate advertiser.

That is our show for today.

What Next TBD is produced by Evan Campbell, Madeline Tempst-Ducharme, and Patrick Ford.

Paige Osborne is the senior supervising producer for What Next and What Next TBD.

Mia Lobel is the executive producer of podcasts here at Slate.

And Ben Richmond is the senior director of podcast operations.

I'm Lizzie O'Leary.

I'm not going to say what it's about.

I'll just say that Emily is infuriated at me that we're doing this topic for Slate Plus.

She thinks it was so important and so critical that we should have dumped our 9-11 segment to do this because it's much more important.

And that's why you should listen to it.

So listen to this exciting Slate Plus episode.

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I'm not going to say what it's about.

I'll just say that Emily is infuriated at me that we're doing this topic for Slate Plus.

She thinks it was so important and so critical that we should have dumped our 9-11 segment to do this because it's much more important.

And that's why you should listen to it.

So listen to this exciting Slate Plus episode.

But you can only do that if you're a Slate Plus member.

So become a Slate Plus member.

Just a reminder that we have this special 50% promotion for Slate Plus membership, 50% off through October 16th.

There's been stuff going on.

And then we're also going to talk about a Slate story that is connected to AI, but not in that way.

Oh,

fuck.

great segue? People are really going to be enthused about this one.

All right, Katie.

So there's a Slate article headlined, could chat GPT be the new gender affirming care? Sub headline, a growing number of transgender people are crediting AI with helping them discover and explore their identities.

But should tech mired in controversy be trusted with something so profound? It's by a woman named Bella Sayegh.