Ghostwriting, AI, and the inauthentic WORK MYTH: AN ACADEMIC REBUTTAL

The current anxiety surrounding AI‑assisted writing is neither new nor particularly original. It is simply the latest iteration of a recurring cultural reflex: whenever a new intellectual tool emerges, a chorus rises to declare that “real work” is under threat. The same objections were levelled, almost verbatim, against electronic calculators in mathematics classrooms several decades ago.