Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?
Summary
The article argues that AI panic resembles cognitive mercantilism, drawing parallels between early capitalism and current anxieties about intelligence as a scarce resource. It outlines four mercantilist beliefs, reframes them around intelligence, and introduces ideas like the cognitive industrious revolution, AI-driven demand for intelligence, and AI Malthusianism, ultimately urging a rethinking of labor politics in an AI-enabled world.