This is a wonderful interview with Science Fiction writer, Cory Doctorow, on the desire by some to replace screenwriters with AI. I recommend rewinding to watch the entire clip, but this is cued to his response on AI and writing.

When you see a Hollywood exec saying, effectively, “We want to fire all the screenwriters and replace them with plausible sentence generators’, that’s because, even if the plausible sentence generators aren’t very good, they have this weird hubristic faith in their ability to, through iteration, replace the screenwriter who wrote good dialogue with their own kind of wild-ass ideas. And you know the screenwriter’s experience of getting notes from an executive is already just AI prompting, right? Like, I need you to write me a version of Indiana Jones but in space—and could you make it a horror movie but make the hero a 10-year-old girl, right? That is, you know, your classic executive-to-writer note. And then the writer makes it, and they go, ‘Can you bring in a lovable animal in act two?’ This is just prompting, right? This is just like me writing instructions for removing a grilled cheese sandwich from a VCR in the style of the King James Bible, right? It’s just prompting. And so, you know what you get with automation is not something that’s good but something that doesn’t complain when you try to impose your genius on it. And it’s ever been thus.

— Cory Doctorow

At the beginning of the interview he discusses how he connects with the reader.