AI & History

I have been arguing that History cannot survive AI, and some people have been offering contending views, such as the idea that AI can’t do certain things that certain historians…

The American Historical Association has issued some “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education.”If you have read any of my posts on the future (or what I see as…

I have been thinking about books and reading as we enter the AI/LLM age.There are a couple of books that were hugely influential when I was a graduate student in…

There is a new study that came out recently called “Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI.”This study was carried out by a group of Microsoft researchers…

A little over a year ago, I started learning about AI image generation. There are a lot of tools for creating AI images. Perhaps the most popular is Midjourney. You…

AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…

I came across the above picture in the British Colonial Office archives. It is of Chinese miners in the early twentieth century in Borneo at a place called “Lobang Buaya,”…

Just about a year ago, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about ways in which AI can make life exciting and productive for historians.It was an optimistic…