AI feels nearly ubiquitous these days, with tech companies pushing AI-powered tools for every conceivable use case. Writers and editors, especially, are being bombarded with AI writing assistants and specialized software touting AI features. However, there are a lot of legal and ethical questions swirling around the AI issue, and creatives are pushing back against the semi-forced adoption of AI-assisted art and writing.

Join the EFA Houston Chapter as Tomeworks editor Anna Hawkins guides us through the AI weeds of:

• how generative AI models actually work
• the legal and ethical questions surrounding generative AI
• how to recognizing AI-generated content when (not if) it ends up in your inbox
• navigating client relations if you suspect their writing to be AI-generated

About Our Speaker

Anna Hawkins is a biologist turned speculative fiction author and editor based in Houston, Texas. She has nearly a decade of editing experience transforming complex information into concise and engaging text for writers in multiple fields, and she has a sharp eye for worldbuilding details and character arcs. Her short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Analog, EscapePod, and The Librarian anthology series from Air and Nothingness Press. Anna is a co-host of Writers Lunch, a weekly online writing workshop, and a co-founder of Tomeworks, an editing collective dedicated to helping genre authors build better books. When she’s not writing or editing, Anna enjoys gaming, crafting, and spending time outdoors. She dabbles in cosplay, quilting, baking, and painting minifigures for tabletop role-playing games. For updates on her writing and editing endeavors, you can find all her socials and other web links at bio.site/ahawkwrites.

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This meeting will be recorded for those who cannot attend. If you’d like the link to the recording, please email me at least one week after the meeting at Chap_Houston@theEFA.org.