In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Bret Stephens makes a provocative plea: don’t use AI to write. His argument goes beyond concerns about academic dishonesty or authenticity; he suggests that the struggle to put our thoughts into words is part of how we learn to think clearly in the first place. From a bioethics perspective, this raises an important question about autonomy and responsibility: if we increasingly outsource the process of articulating our thoughts, how much of the final product remains genuinely ours? As AI becomes part of everyday life, perhaps the challenge is not simply whether we use it, but how we use it without surrendering the thinking that should remain our own. Read more here.