UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
B.A. EXAMINATION 2025
TUTORIAL ASSIGNMENT
NAME – MAYURESH DAS
UID – 0304240054
ROLL NUMBER – 244305
SUBJECT – SEC 2
CU ROLL NUMBER – 242017-21-0060
CU REGISTRATION NUMBER – 017-1111-0395-24
BATCH – SEM 2 (2024-2028)
COLLEGE – THE BHAWANIPUR EDUCATION
SOCIETY COLLEGE
RELEVANCE OF LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF A.I.
In this new age of 21st century where Artificial intelligence or AI has been a part of our daily
life and re-reshaping the social fabric. From AI enabled cars to predictive algorithm,
intelligent assistant, AI permeates into nearly every aspect of life. Amidst the rapid
advancements in technology to further push what AI can be developed into more and what AI
can do next in the coming future, there arises a question of how much will AI overwhelm in
amongst human dominated fields and one of the major question marks in which several
reports, surveys and preliminary studies have been conducted to ascertain the answer to that
query is The Relevance of Literature in this Age of AI. The relevance of literature—a
discipline inextricably bound to the human past, powered by subjective experience and
affective engagement—is challenged. Not irrelevant, but rather pivotal. Literature gives
profound insight into human consciousness, facilitates empathy, preserves cultural memory,
and offers a critical lens through which to question the ethical dimensions of technology. In
the age of AI, literature does not become obsolete; it becomes more necessary. Literature in
its very nature is propelled by Imagination, Life Understanding and Creativity to impart
meaning to each and every aspect of life. In its very heart, literature is a human life
interpretation. Whether in the plays of Shakespeare, the musings of Virginia Woolf’s
reflection, or the surreality of George Orwell’s dystopian universes, literature speaks the
complexity of human mind. AI, conversely, is born mechanical. While it can approximate
human response, it does not suffer, dream, or ache. In addition, literature resists the reduction
of people to data points. In a time when surveillance capitalism and behaviour prediction
programmes more and more put figures on our existence, literature insists upon the richness
of subjectivity. A novel isn’t a tale—it is an invitation to occupy another human being’s mind.
In that exercise of imaginative sympathy, literature creates depth of understanding which no
computer can mimic or substitute. There have been various studies conducted, several books
written with the question of the relevance of Literature and among them some of the views
shared between them discusses the new phenomenon of AI-generated literature and its
implications on creative writing and seeks to cover the characteristics of AI-texts, how AI-
human co-creation influences the creative process, and how these technologies push
traditional notions of authorship, originality, and creativity.
By comparative analysis of certain AI-generated literary works and a case study of the
“Pharmako-AI” project, the study reveals the stylistic, thematic, and structural characteristics
of AI-written literature and the dynamic relationship between AI and human in the creative
process. The results suggest that while AI could serve as an efficient tool for creative
experimentations and discovery, it also lacks consistency, coherence, and emotional
resonance and requires substantial human intervention and judgment to shape the final
literary product. The study contributes to the understanding of AI and creative writing by
providing concrete understandings of what can be done with these technologies and their
limits, and by underscoring the need for new models and frameworks for understanding the
nature of creative agency in a world where AI is real. The potential implications of AI-
generated literature for literature as a field and for literary practice in the future are examined,
including the possibility of new forms of literature, new modes of authorship and
collaboration, and new challenges to traditional definitions of originality and creativity. The
study concludes with proposals for future research with a focus on interdisciplinary research
and establishing fresh theoretical and methodological paradigms for the analysis and
evaluation of AI-generating literature. When human creators create materials and works of
literature, they are always guided by the context of their time and the total aesthetic and
philosophical worldview of the society. But for huge language model AI, their base models
are trained using human-discovered text data that have existed for thousands of years. For
them, the context of the ages and the unique aesthetics and philosophy of the ages do not
constitute the meaning of “thinking” to them. To them, individuals of any age possess only
some variation in information with regard to epistemology and ontology, and this is not an
issue with respect to their typical content creation process. Literature is a storehouse of
collective memory. It keeps alive the voices of the past, including those that history has
forgotten or silenced. In a world where information is becoming more transient and
algorithmically managed, literature provides an uncompromising foil. It defies the smoothing
imperatives of systems that value efficiency, novelty, or participation metrics over depth and
breadth. Furthermore, literature is resistance.
It compels us to slow down in a culture that is all about speed. It interrupts hegemonic
narratives in an age ruled by echo chambers and virality. It requires attention, reflection, and
restraint—values contrary to those of our present digital selves. Instead of viewing literature
and AI as enemies, we can view them as complements. AI can expand what we know, provide
us with analysis tools, and even make new kinds of creative writing. But it is literature that
grounds us in meaning. Literature reminds us of what we are morally required to do, deepens
our inner lives, and shows us how to be human in a machine-mediated world that is growing
more so by the day. In the era of AI, literature is not only worth its weight in gold—it is
indispensible. It rescues humanity from being adrift in a world dominated by machinery. And
above all, it challenges us to envision not only a future powered by technological
advancements, but one shaped by compassion, wisdom, and the abiding strength of
storytelling.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Works cited and studies used for research purposes:-
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Bostrom, Nick. Superinteligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford, 2014.
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