Deep Writing: Human–Machine Co-Creation and the Future of Authorship
- Oct 27, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
CHEN Qiufan Stanley
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Language and Translation, HKMU
Date: 7 Nov 2025 (Fri)
Time: 5 PM (HKT)
Venue: B0758, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Language: English
All are welcome! No registration required.
As generative AI reshapes cultural production, Chen Qiufan Stanley examines the shifting boundaries of authorship, agency, and meaning. Drawing from his pioneering work in human–AI co-creation, he reflects on how writing becomes a mirror of broader sociotechnical transformations—from algorithmic bias to ecological entanglement. This talk invites you to rethink authorship as a collective, post-human act, where narrative becomes a site of negotiation between technology, ethics, and planetary futures.
CHEN Qiufan Stanley is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, creative producer, and curator. He is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Arts & Social Sciences at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He is the author of Waste Tide — his debut novel — and, with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. Chen also serves as the deputy president of Chinese Writers Association Science Fiction Committee and Berggruen Institute Fellow. His works have been translated into over twenty languages.
Moderator
ZHOU Dihao (PhD, Yale) is Class of '28 Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at HKU, affiliated with the School of Chinese. His research focuses on Chinese science fiction writing from the 1950s to the early 1990s amid accelerating political and technological changes.
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