Erik Hanburg Overview

 Eric Hanburg came to our class to discuss his background and what he does for a living. He has written various books on social media, advertisement, fundraising, and science fiction. All the books he has written are about how to fundraise for small businesses, or about science fiction stories. The big reason Professor Fry had him come to his class was because he gave a talk about A. I and book writing, and if a chatbot can write a better book than authors can. That can turn into a pretty big debate if I am honest. That is because it is kinda true. After all, he looked up studies regarding this and had examples of bots generating a storyline he put into the server and it came up with pretty good lines to help with the story's case.

Professor Fry also had all of us students write 3 questions as he was speaking so we could ask them after Erik was done talking with us. I will try to remember off the top of my head what my questions were.

My questions were something like this

1.)  Would you ever publish a book if you ran the plot through a chatbot?

2.)  If you were to not write books anymore would you go back to working for nonprofits full-time?

3.) Why did you choose to work at a non-profit organization and not a full-time cooperate job? If you did work at a full-time corporate job would you still write books on how to fundraise in a full-time corporate setting instead?

Overall, I thought his talk was very informative to all of us. So, we understand either the dangers or what to look for if A. I do take over the world and take jobs from authors and generate books or something like that. Or maybe have people inspired to work for non-profits very soon right out of college.

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