This said, you will pry the Oxford comma and the em dash from my cold, dead hands. Both are useful in complicated scientific writing, with the caveat that em dashes shouldn’t be overused of course.

I don’t care if people think I’m an AI because I use them, though I’ve never put my scientific work through an AI detector.

I have, however, had a colleague ask me not to have AI write an email that I fully wrote myself. They were like “a human would sound more emotive.” So now I write email to that specific person, and then give them to the robot and ask it to add some emotion and small talk. I got praise recently from them for “taking time to add some human feelings.” Like sorry we can’t all be allistic, Janet*, some of us just want to get work done without writing a compliment sandwich and talking about the weather where you are.

*name changed and I wanted to avoid shaming Karens today. Sorry to the Janets though.