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Why AI can (and should) lead to a renaissance in the humanities
AI makes the humanities critically important — and not just because science hasn’t yet provided answers to classic philosophical questions.
Figures like Alexander Cummings, Marie Curie, Jonas Salk, Norman Borlaug and countless others have saved vast numbers of our species from untold suffering through rigorous interrogation of the natural world. Given these trends, one could be forgiven for worrying that the rise of AI — and the salaries its studies confer — could spell the death knell for the liberal arts as a rewarding and worthwhile pursuit for individuals or our species as a whole. For example, the temptation for some to hide in American Standard English due to perfect translation services and to treat the world as if it spoke as we do, and therefore thinks as we do, would be a terrible instance of leaky abstraction with potentially tragic consequences for our civilization.
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