AI in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Abstract

AI allows work with data to extend well beyond simple keyword searches or formulaic calculations. It is applied to help specialists in the history of art and in discourse analysis as well as in linguistics and physical anthropology who analyse big corpora and construct models. Participants in the “Forum”, a written round table, are representatives of the social sciences and humanities. They describe their contact with such applications in their professional life (whether as a field of study or to practical ends), and discuss what the pluses and minuses of AI in the world of academic work and education are. They also touch upon cases where they knew, or suspected, that a student had submitted work that was actually written by a resource such as ChatGPT. Finally, ethical problems arising in connection with AI are considered.