04/24/2025

A Harvard Professor Tested Five AI Assistants

Here's the surprising discovery he made

Recently, The Washington Post invited me to join a blue-ribbon panel of communication experts for an AI writing experiment. Tech reporter Geoffrey Fowler pitched the idea as an old-fashioned bake-off with a modern twist. He asked us to test five popular AI tools on how well they could write five kinds of difficult work and personal emails.

Why emails?

"It's one of the first truly useful things AI can do in your life," Fowler said. "And the skills AI demonstrates in drafting emails also apply to other kinds of writing tasks."

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