There are a hundred contacts between a man and his work at every stage of the game – and the contact itself is pleasurable and repays a man for the work he puts into his creation more than anything else could … Typewriters and printing presses take away some, but your robot would deprive us of all … Soon it, or other robots, would take over the original writing, the searching of the sources, the checking and cross-checking of passages, perhaps even the deduction of conclusions. What would that leave the scholar? One thing only – the barren decisions concerning what orders to give the robot next! I want to save the future generations of the world of scholarship from such a final hell.
Asimov, I. 1957. “Galley Slave.” Galaxy Science Fiction 15 (1): 315–348.
This fabulous quotation heads an open access article by Maria Gretky and Gideon Dishon.
Gretzky, M., & Dishon, G. (2025). Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–14.
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