Post by Callia Peterson

The theme for The Stanford Daily’s most recent magazine came to me and my co-editor Charlotte Cao after a conversation about emails. We were discussing how to add more personality to our correspondence at our respective internships, proving our humanity while keeping our professionalism, like a purposefully misplaced comma or abandoning the em dash. We couldn’t help but notice that AI was becoming an increasingly salient feature of our everyday lives, changing not just how we prepped for exams or ideated our gym routines but how we fundamentally communicated with one another. Our language, our voices, our prose were being altered because of AI. We wanted a magazine theme that allowed us the space to write about how the AI revolution was impacting Stanford students—especially as my graduating class is the first to have had AI for our entire college careers—but also to explore communication writ large. And so, “Natural Language Processing” was born, complete with stories about AI but also memory, vernacular, and the end of Stanford’s land acknowledgment. This eight-month project was a gift and the perfect capstone to an eight-year scholastic journalism career. I am beyond grateful to Greta Reich, Lauren K., and Ananya Udaygiri for the privilege of serving as Managing Editor of The Stanford Daily Magazine, and to my co-mag editor Charlotte Cao whose wisdom and prose show that some things can never be replaced by AI. Read our Editor’s Note: https://lnkd.in/g_hjUaPg Read the online version of the mag: https://lnkd.in/gqEWxysn