What Machines Can’t Replace: Why AI Makes Us More Human With Anna McPhee
About this episode
Anna McPhee discusses how AI can assist writers while emphasizing the importance of human creativity.
How can you use AI to research, edit and handle admin and marketing tasks while still writing every single word yourself? How can you double down on being human and reach readers on a personal level? Anna McPhee shares her perspective as a software engineer, author and creative technologist. In the intro, How to Write, Publish, and Market Short Stories out now. This show is supported by my Patrons. Join my Community and get articles, discounts, and extra audio and video tutorials on writing craft, author business, and AI tools, at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Anna McPhee is an author, software engineer, professional speaker, and creative technologist. Her latest book is What Machines Can't Replace: Why AI Makes Us More Human . You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Note s Why writing code is creative work, and what it shares with writing books How AI changed Anna's job as a software engineer without taking her employment The difference between AI assistance and generation How to use custom skills for editing reports, research and repeatable…
People in this episode
Host: Joanna Penn
Guest: Anna McPhee
Topics covered
- AI in writing
- human creativity
- editing with AI
- marketing for authors
- personal connection with readers
Keywords
- AI
- writing
- editing
- marketing
- creativity
- authors
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Patreon
Books & works: What Machines Can't Replace: Why AI Makes Us More Human
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