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# ai-reading-list-humanities


## Core Readings

- **NYT Magazine**: [“AI’s History Wars: How Historians Are Grappling with Artificial Intelligence”](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/magazine/ai-history-historians-scholarship.html)  
  A longform essay on how historians are beginning to frame AI as both subject and method.

- **AHA**: [Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education (2025)](https://www.historians.org/resource/guiding-principles-for-artificial-intelligence-in-history-education/)  
  Clear, discipline-specific guidelines on authorship, citation, and scholarly integrity.

- **MLA/CCCC**: [Writing and AI: Joint Task Force Working Paper (2025)](https://aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-papers/)  
  A companion to the AHA document, but rooted in writing studies and literary scholarship.

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## Pedagogical

- **Lorena Barba et al.**: [“Experience Embracing GenAI in an Engineering Course” (IEEE, 2025)](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11104179)  
  A case study of AI adoption in engineering. Useful as a contrast for humanities students—showing how other fields experiment with AI at scale.

- **New Yorker**: [“Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?” by Bruce Burnett](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence)  
  A cultural essay weighing the long-term prospects of the humanities in an AI-saturated world.

- **Harvard Crimson**: [“Harvard Needs More Quizzes” by Anant Agarwal](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/3/agarwal-harvard-humanities-quizzes/)  
  A provocation about assessment and pedagogy in the age of AI.
  
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## Futurist / Corporate Perspectives

- **Anthropic**: [Education Report: How Educators Use Claude (2025)](https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-educators-use-claude)  
  A corporate view of AI’s role in classrooms.

- **Sam Altman**: [*The Gentle Singularity*](https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity)  
  Classic techno-optimist essay

- **Dario Amodei**: [*Machines of Loving Grace*](https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace)  
  Blends utopian tones with corporate futurism.

- **Leopold Aschenbrenner**: [*Situational Awareness*](https://situational-awareness.ai/)  
  Raises questions about alignment, existential risk, and accelerationist thinking.

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## Critical Responses

- **HackMD Critiques (GPT-5 authored)**  
  Experiments in AI critique of disciplinary guidelines:  
  - [Critique of AHA Principles](https://hackmd.io/zQECCLQGSAWLvWrv_qChsw)  
  - [gpt-5-one-shot-ai-for-history-education](/wgj4AtXGQ4mSvJpzl4JpbA)
