Could Lee Child Win the 2025 Nobel Prize?

This piece explores the potential future of AI in creative fields, particularly literature, while highlighting British author Lee Child’s unique writing style. Child, known for his Jack Reacher novels, writes without outlines or revisions, much like how AI language models generate content. The author suggests Child could be a fitting recipient of one of the last human-awarded Nobel Prizes for Literature, as AI may soon take over such honors. Child's success is compared to AI's creative process, predicting one word at a time. The article speculates on AI's growing role in storytelling, discussing how Child's methods resemble AI’s approach, and how AI-written Reacher stories might soon emerge. While current AI-generated Reacher stories fall short, the author envisions a future where AI’s creative potential could rival human authors, particularly in extending literary universes like Reacher’s.