# Brave New Bookshelf - Episode 3
[00:00:00] Welcome to Brave New Bookshelf, a podcast that explores the fascinating intersection of AI and authorship. Join hosts, Steph Pajonas and Danica Favorite, as they dive into thought provoking discussions, debunk myths, and highlight the transformative role of AI in the publishing industry.
**Steph Pajonas:** Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Brave New Bookshelf. We're back again. This is Steph Pajonas. Once again, I am the COO and CTO of the Future Fiction Academy.
And I'm a Fantasy romance, science fiction romance, cozy mystery author with lots of books out. And my co host is Danica. Danica, hi, it's good to see you.
**Danica Favorite:** Hey, how are you? I'm Danica Favorite and I am the Community Manager at PublishDrive. And I am also an author. I am a multi published author, a hybrid author.
So I'm both traditionally and independently published. My books are out with Harlequin Love Inspired and then I have several indie titles as well. We are just here to talk to you [00:01:00] about AI and hopefully give you some perspectives in publishing that perhaps you haven't thought of and to help educate you as to what AI is, what it isn't, and how we are using AI in our own personal writing.
**Steph Pajonas:** Yeah, we've been thinking about the kinds of questions we want to ask guests who come onto the show with us. Danica came up with this list of three questions that we thought were great way to lead into talking to our guests. And we figured we, we would answer these questions ourselves today.
And then we can talk back and forth about the kinds of stuff that we're using AI for.
So I'm going to get started by asking Danica, the very first question on the list. And that is, how are you approaching AI?
**Danica Favorite:** So I am approaching AI with the attitude that it's here to stay. It's not going anywhere.
In fact, I feel like every time I turn around, there's some new "AI" thing that different [00:02:00] products are coming out with. And so the reality is, is it's here. And the truth is, I've been using AI for a long time without realizing it. I just had a recording from a summit that I was on just go live today and someone messaged me about it saying, wow, yeah, I didn't even think about that because I dictate my books and I've been using Dragon Dictation to transcribe my recordings for years. And guess what that's AI and we don't think of it because it wasn't labeled that and suddenly you slap that AI label and people get scared but I think that we have to approach it with this idea of it's already here and so I want to learn how to use it to my best ability so that I can maximize my abilities but also so that I'm not afraid of it and that I'm not left behind because I think that's actually the challenge here with AI is that it isn't that someone said this in a podcast or something that I was listening [00:03:00] to a long time ago.
And I took this attitude as my own. So I apologize for not properly attributing it, but I can't remember who it was, is that the thing with AI, Is it a I isn't going to replace me as a writer that the people what's going to replace me as a writer are other writers who are good at AI and I want my writing to still be there.
I want to still be functioning and doing well as a writer. And so I want to have all the tools at my disposal and regardless of how they're used. I want to have them at my disposal, and I also want to use them responsibly and ethically. That, that, that's how I'm approaching AI. How about you, Steph? How are you approaching AI?
**Steph Pajonas:** I'm approaching AI the same as you, it's here to stay. I see it in almost every sector of b
