AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder

As AI language models become central to both humanistic research and AI development itself, humanities skills—particularly understanding of language, culture, and rhetoric—have become unexpectedly valuable rather than obsolete. The article argues that universities pretending AI won't transform teaching and research is untenable, and that humanistic knowledge is now essential both for using AI tools effectively (in paleography, translation, data mining) and for fixing AI systems when they fail due to cultural or linguistic misunderstandings. Non-technical humanists now have the capability to write their own code, fundamentally reshaping what humanities scholarship entails.

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