# AI Authorship Critics Often Offer Reflex Instead of Argument by Bryant McGill > “The fiercest critics of AI authorship are human writers who have never thought seriously about what authorship is; their objection is often not an argument, but an unexamined reflex.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Original authored source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature]], “AI-assisted authorship and contextual gravity” (September 27, 2026). - **Exact wording:** “The fiercest critics of AI authorship are human writers who have never thought seriously about what authorship is; their objection is often not an argument, but an unexamined reflex.” - **Context:** The passage distinguishes a reasoned account of authorship from an automatic rejection of machine participation and leads directly into the article's analysis of automated AI-writing detectors. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Project:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature]] - **Essay:** [[This Is AI Generated|This Is AI Generated]] - **Project:** [[projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The fiercest critics of AI authorship are human writers who have never thought seriously about what authorship is; their objection is often not an argument, but an unexamined reflex.” — Bryant McGill, The Argument in Miniature, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-ai-authorship-reflex-not-argument ```