[Leo-thorne]

AI hasn’t destroyed the humanities, but it definitely made things more complicated and harder to teach. I’ve seen students rely entirely on chatbots to write essays, and it really does make teaching harder. As the article says, we need to find ways to make AI and the humanities work together, not just hold on to the old way of doing things.

[thijson]

A lot of my engineering exams didn't allow certain calculators, so I guess that's what will happen for humanities, supervised and timed essay writing.

I remember going to museums and seeing all the modern art, and wondering why art went to such weird places compared to the realism of the 1600's, and my conclusion was that invention of photography made realism obsolete. I wonder if something similar will happen to the humanities.

[Leo-thorne]

I think you’re onto something. Maybe essay writing won’t disappear, but how we do it might change, just like how photography changed art.