{"title":"The impact of language models on the humanities and vice versa","authors":"Ted Underwood","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00819-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Many humanists are skeptical of language models and concerned about their effects on universities. However, researchers with a background in the humanities are also actively engaging with artificial intelligence — seeking not only to adopt language models as tools, but to steer them toward a more flexible, contextual representation of written culture.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 9","pages":"695-697"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature computational science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00819-4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Many humanists are skeptical of language models and concerned about their effects on universities. However, researchers with a background in the humanities are also actively engaging with artificial intelligence — seeking not only to adopt language models as tools, but to steer them toward a more flexible, contextual representation of written culture.