In brief
- Grammarly’s “Expert Review” feature gives AI writing feedback framed through named experts.
- Academics say the system includes scholars who have died, drawing mixed reactions from users.
- Critics question whether the company can use scholars’ identities without consent.
Grammarly’s new AI feature that provides writing feedback from the purported perspective of noted “experts” is drawing criticism from academics who say the tool appears to “resurrect” scholars to review users’ work.
The feature, called Expert Review, analyzes text and generates feedback framed through the perspective of specific scholars, journalists, and other specialists. Many of the experts that the AI tool claims to mimic are no longer living—a feature that one medieval historian on BlueSky called “morbid.”
Launched in 2009 as an AI-assisted writing and grammar tool, Grammarly’s parent company rebranded to Superhuman in October to reflect its shift from a single writing assistant into a suite of AI productivity agents, including tools for research, scheduling, email, and workflow automation.
Grammarly introduced the Expert Review feature last summer. Through the Grammarly browser extension, users who opt into the Superhuman Go version can select an expert and receive AI-generated feedback based on that scholar’s field or published work.
“Our Expert Review agent examines the writing a user is working on, whether it’s a marketing brief or a student project on biodiversity, and leverages our underlying LLM to surface expert content…
