The Cyborg Author

The cyborg author is the figure produced when a human writes with an AI in sustained collaboration. The writing that results belongs neither to the human alone nor to the machine alone but to the hybrid — the entity constituted by the entanglement. The figure is disquieting because the infrastructure of creative value in Western culture — copyright, attribution, prizes, reputation — is built on the assumption that authorship can be traced to a single originating mind. The cyborg condition dissolves this assumption without providing a clean replacement, leaving the cyborg author to develop practices of accountability that the old vocabulary of authorship cannot articulate.