AI can help you brainstorm, rephrase, or generate drafts, but it should not do the thinking or decision-making for you. Writing is more than typing sentences — it’s how you shape your ideas and express yourself. Let AI assist, but don’t hand it the steering wheel.

1. Use AI as a Tool, Not a Replacement 🛠️

Copy-paste AI content may look polished, but it lacks heart. Readers are smart — they can tell when something is generic or soulless. Take pride in creating something only you could write. That’s how trust and credibility are built.

8. Originality and Integrity Are Priceless 🧩

AI is excellent at generating content that sounds right, but it doesn’t understand meaning. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. True creativity requires intention, curiosity, and a point of view — things that only humans bring to the page.

3. AI Can Mimic, But Not Create 🤖

Understanding your audience — their needs, feelings, and struggles — is what makes communication effective. AI doesn’t care. You do. When you write with empathy, your words resonate and create impact.

7. Good Writing Requires Empathy

Writing is a craft developed through effort, practice, and reflection. If we become too dependent on AI tools, we risk losing the discipline, skill, and thoughtfulness that come from writing ourselves. Use AI to support your learning, not to skip the hard parts.

4. Preserve the Craft of Writing

<ul><li>Keep Practicing: Writing is a skill. The more you do it, the better you get.</li><li>Read Widely: Great writing starts with great reading.</li><li>Revising Is Essential: Your first draft isn’t your best draft — editing brings clarity.</li><li>Seek Feedback: A second perspective can help refine your message.</li><li>Stay Curious: Curiosity fuels creativity.</li><li>Celebrate Progress: Every time you finish writing something — that’s growth.</li></ul>

💡 🔍 Bonus Lessons to Keep in Mind:

Writing helps you discover what you believe and organize your thoughts. When you write, you sharpen your understanding. If you let AI do the writing, you may never reach the clarity or insights that come from struggling through your own ideas.

6. Writing Is a Way of Thinking 🧠

Words shape minds. They inform, inspire, persuade, and connect people. Don’t treat writing as a shortcut task to outsource. Treat it as a responsibility — something worth doing well.

10. Respect the Power of Words ⚡

Don’t ban AI — just don’t let it take over. Use it wisely and intentionally. It can help with drafts, spelling, or formatting, but it should never replace the deep thinking, rewriting, and personal input that real writing needs.

5. Balance Technology and Human Effort ⚖️

What makes writing powerful is the writer’s unique voice. Your experiences, beliefs, and emotions are things AI cannot replicate. When you write authentically, your readers connect with the real person behind the words. AI can copy patterns, but it can’t feel what you feel.

2. Be Authentic — Your Voice Matters 🧬

Writing isn’t just about producing content. It helps you grow as a thinker, a communicator, and a person. The more you write, the better you become at expressing complex ideas and making meaningful contributions.

9. Writing Builds You 🧱

The book AI Can’t Write, But You Can by Tom Albrighton deals with a focused but powerful range of topics centered on the value of human writing in an AI-dominated world.

Everyone’s talking about AI and using automated writing tools like ChatGPT. But what’s really going on when we ask a machine to write for us? And should we be using these tools at all?  ‘AI Can’t Write, But You Can’ takes a deep dive into the implications of ChatGPT and makes a passionate case for the value of human writing in the age of AI.This concise and hard-hitting book covers:•	How ChatGPT works, what it can do and the limits to its capability•	The many benefits of writing your own text and how ChatGPT undermines them•	Why only you can write from your unique experience and view of the world•	How ChatGPT hallucinates and makes mistakes•	What ChatGPT means for art, learning and the workplace•	Why ChatGPT is a parasite on human creativity•	Why questioning ChatGPT doesn’t make you a Luddite•	Twelve actionable tips for making your writing stand out from content produced with AIIf you’ve ever wondered what’s going on behind the screen with ChatGPT, or questioned the morality of automated writing tools, ‘AI Can’t Write, But You Can’ is for you. Written by veteran writer and editor Tom Albrighton, author of ‘How to Write Clearly’ and ‘Copywriting Made Simple’ and original co-founder of ProCopywriters.