Under this theme, the Fangtang Institute seeks to explore how scholarship in the humanities should be organized in the age of AI. As AI rewrites the basic structures of knowledge and society, the humanities once again confront questions of fundamental importance. The challenge is no longer simply to update their tools, but to move beyond the comfort of established disciplinary divisions and specialized fields, and respond anew to the fundamental questions of our time. AI also opens up possibilities for knowledge production to move from individual accumulation toward collaborative creation, and from a small circle of experts toward broader participation. Humanities scholars are thus better placed to draw on the methods, data, and tools of other disciplines to reopen the questions that matter to them. We must ask ourselves: amid these changes, how will scholarship in the humanities reorganize its guiding questions, its production of knowledge, and its public mission?
AI for Humanities
How scholarship in the humanities will reorganize its guiding questions, knowledge production, and public mission in the age of AI.