Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Kirsten is a technical writer, essayist, researcher, and novelist based in San Francisco, California. Her first novel, "Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain" (Algonquin, 2008), was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in fiction and one of Chicago Time Out's Top 10 books of 2008. Her essays have appeared in LitHub, Towards Data Science, Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine, and Q.E.D. She earned an MA in English and creative writing from SFSU and a BA in economics from Haverford College. She once worked as a production manager for Wired Digital and as the Director of Production for Salon.com.
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Into The Gap: What Machine Learning Reveals About Gender And Writing

The technologies we are using to generate text—from auto-replies to articles—are learning the patterns in the set of texts we give them. And these technologies, in turn, are not only writing for all of us, but imposing the patterns they’ve learned. Read more