"The Last Great American Short Story"

JF (Jeffrey Francis) Krizan's rebuttal to Sam Altman's Open AI obsession to diminish actual human intelligence by unleashing potentially uncontrollable "artificial intelligence (A.I.)" is through his recently published fictional short story, "The Last Great American Short Story: A Publisher's Narration of the First A.I. Casualty."

True, A.I. may aid America in establishing a colony on Mars or alternatively, it may result in the irrevocable nuclear annihilation of humankind. Maybe I'm wrong but at the very least, it will leave our grandchildren pondering the pointlessness of higher education. After all, why bother, everything is decided FOR us by A.I.. An irony to Altman's view of the benefits of his A.I. is through his admitted role as a "prepper!" Perhaps he has already weighed the risks and determined that this all might not end well?

And so ends my career as a four-time published novelist, not because A.I. is replacing creative writing (which it is), but because I am ready to "turn the page" to discover my next great adventure.