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Using AI to Bulletproof Your Writing
The man standing on top of the tower pictured above is Benjamin Franklin, one of the true luminaries of the Enlightenment and perhaps the one person most responsible for the successful launching of our country. Forced to leave school at ten years of age, Franklin found that his writing skills did not match his ambitions, so he set about improving them.
He describes his method for augmenting his rhetorical skills in his Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and that work should be read and studied by all serious people. The crux of the method is to read a lot, find writers that impress you, and teach yourself to do what they have done.
I have described his method in more detail elsewhere on this forum, and it would be most helpful to readers here to get it directly from the man himself via his autobiography, but just recently, a development in the availability of AI has inspired me to describe here a permutation of his method that uses widely (and freely) available AI to augment and expedite it in such a way that it can be adapted to our twenty-first-century paths, buttressing the effectiveness of our communications and increasing our agency over our own lives.
