Overview
- Users discovered the Expert Review option listing real authors and academics for feedback, with examples including recently deceased historian David Abulafia.
- WIRED tested the tool and reproduced recommendations from an Abulafia model and suggestions tied to figures such as Stephen King, Carl Sagan, William Strunk Jr., Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Mitchell, and Virginia Tufte.
- Superhuman’s spokesperson says the agent analyzes a user’s text and leverages the company’s LLM to surface expert‑inspired suggestions based on the document’s subject.
- Product materials include a disclaimer stating that references to experts are informational only and do not indicate affiliation or endorsement, but scholars publicly criticized the practice as unethical and dehumanizing.
- Reporting notes unresolved legal questions over training on authors’ and academics’ works, and highlights a separate AI grader agent that tailors feedback using publicly available information about instructors.