What happens to the “death of the author” when texts are co-written with machines? A new article in Springer’s AI and Ethics.
A new article, “From Barthes to Algorithms: Reimagining Authorship and Reader Agency in the AI Era”, has been published in AI and Ethics (Springer Nature, 2026).
Starting from Roland Barthes’ famous claim about the death of the author, the article asks how authorship, interpretation and reader agency should be understood when generative AI participates in writing, and what this means for literary studies and education.