The AIAI Network is hosting journalist and novelist Vauhini Vara on Thursday, October 16. She will give a talk at 4PM in Atwood 360 titled “If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?” Vara has won an O. Henry award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction in 2023 for The Immortal King Rao. She spent nearly a decade as a technology reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Her most recent book, Searches, investigates what is at stake—ethically, culturally, and for writing—with the rise of AI.