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The Humanities Are About to Be Automated

Yascha Mounk · 16 Feb 2026

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    Large language models are capable of producing work that could be published in serious academic journals.

    Their wordsBut on the whole, the outcome was depressingly good: I am confident that it could, with minor revisions, be published by a serious journal.

  2. Our reading

    The humanities face a crisis because artificial intelligence can perform the tasks that define academic careers in those fields.

    Their wordsBut once artificial intelligence is able to write these contributions in the stead of humans-not just in political theory but also in theology and art history and comparative literature-it is totally indefensible.

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