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Editors’ Choice: The Price of Scale: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of the Humanities

Editor’s Summary: The question of scale is something that has been troubling many humanities disciplines even before the popularization of computational technologies. In the field of DH, we often perceive that there is an additional layer of abstraction between the researcher and subject because of the digital “screen” and scale of analysis that our technological […]

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Editors’ Choice: beware of geeks baring gifs: when d&d-style AI alignment breaks

There’s a fascinating piece of research out from Anthropic. Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats. Maybe you’ve seen it doing the rounds this weekend as it landed on Friday I think. There’s a lot of hyperbolic reaction, even for something that merits serious concern. Nevertheless, it seems these things aren’t ready to be […]

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Editors’ Choice: A Visualization of Influence in the History of Philosophy

“I don’t know a lot about philosophy,” says Grant Louis Oliveira, a data analyst and quantitative social sciences researcher with an undergraduate degree in political science. He continues: I’d like to change that and more rigorously explore my ideas, but I find the world of philosophy a bit impenetrable, and I don’t think I’m the only […]