Humanities in the Time of AI
Why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance and significance

If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds.

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Humanities in the Time of AI
Why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance and significance

If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds.

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Humanities in the Time of AI

Humanities in the Time of AI

by Laurent Dubreuil
Humanities in the Time of AI

Humanities in the Time of AI

by Laurent Dubreuil

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Why AI offers a chance for the humanities to strengthen their relevance and significance

If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781517919047
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 04/01/2025
Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Laurent Dubreuil is professor of comparative literature, Romance studies, and cognitive science at Cornell University, where he founded the Humanities Lab. He is author of many books, including The Intellective Space: Thinking beyond Cognition and, with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Dialogues on the Human Ape, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Table of Contents

Contents

1. An Essay in Paradoxical Optimism

2. Perspectives and Disciplines

3. AI Is Us

4. We Are Not AI

5. Naming the Human(ities)

6. The Ongoing Reprogramming

7. A Turing Intermezzo

8. The Oeuvre of the Humanities

9. A Platonic Interlude

10. The Ethical Fallacy

11. Descriptions and Interpretations

12. Corpus Expansions

13. Dilettantes and Technicists

14. Subjects and Persons

15. An Opening

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