Generative AI and the Future of the Humanities

Reading, Writing, Teaching, Labor

2025
Buch

Verfasst von: Dana J. Gavin
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"; Springer Professional "Technik"; Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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Dieses Buch bietet Geisteswissenschaftlern eine Möglichkeit, sich kritisch mit generativer KI und den Auswirkungen des Technokaptialismus auf grundlegende und im Wesentlichen menschliche Fertigkeiten wie Lesen und Schreiben auseinanderzusetzen. Zur Zielgruppe gehören Pädagogen und Wissenschaftler aus dem Hochschulbereich und der K-12 sowie alle, die daran interessiert sind, wie kritisches Denken und Schreiben in Zukunft gelehrt wird. Für diejenigen, die nur den Begriff "ChatGPT" kennen, ist dieses Buch eine Ressource, um zu verstehen, wie allgegenwärtig und allgegenwärtig generative KI bereits in unserem Leben ist; für diejenigen, die mit OpenAI und anderen Entwicklern vertraut sind, bietet dieses Buch einen größeren Kontext für die Auswirkungen solcher Technologien auf unsere kreative Funktionalität.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. The Luddite’s Battle Cry

Abstract

This chapter introduces the main argument of this book: namely, that while generative AI presents a unique threat to the acquisition and development of critical reading and writing skills, it also represents a general public malaise to those skills. The humanities as a professional institution have not been able to break through the public discourse noise to make a case for the necessity of those skills. This book aims to raise questions, offer suggestions, and ultimately argue for action rather than passivity.

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Chapter 2. Through a Glass, Darkly: Generative AI and Writing

Abstract

Writing is such a funny, fickle activity, that often unites people in feelings of frustration and annoyance because it is a taxing endeavor if one takes writing seriously. This chapter focuses on novice (student and layperson) and professional (academic and public-facing) writing and calls for a reifying of the idea of public humanities, where we are addressing our communities-at-large as writers of all abilities and raising writing as a human right in a consistent, thoughtful, and compassionate manner.

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Chapter 3. Making Bricks Without Clay: Generative AI and Reading

Abstract

Reading requires a level of trust that the author is acting in good faith, yet generative AI is untrustworthy. This chapter outlines how difficult, yet critical, it is for us to try to “read” generative AI so that we can more clearly interpret what affect is can and does have on the humanities and on our daily lives, including our ability to acquire and maintain literacy and deep reading skills.

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Chapter 4. “And Then there Were None”: Generative AI and Labor

Abstract

Stepping away from the immediacy of the classroom, this chapter considers the humanities as a profession and the role educators play as laborers within the higher education industrial complex. This chapter interrogates the role time and speed play in our working conditions and the changes that are being proposed to those conditions. This chapter suggests that we think about the way “incapacitating technocapitalism” might be a framework that imperils our most essential work: teaching critical reading and writing skills.

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Chapter 5. Sowers of Discord and Scandal: Generative AI and the Student/Educator Connection

Abstract

This chapter is dedicated to teaching and will address pedagogy, but the primary focus when considering the impact of generative AI on the classroom is the discord sown between students and educators. Again, fractures in this critical relationship were visible long before fall of 2022, but the crisis of the COVID19 pandemic and the emergence of generative AI have turned a bad situation into a toxic one. We have an opportunity to course correct now in response to generative AI that could have long-lasting positive ramifications beyond the current AI discussion.

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Chapter 6. Deep, : The Way Forward is Through

Abstract

This final chapter argues that we should use our hard-won skills, developed through our humanistic work, to take the problem of incapacitating technocapitalism head on. Whether or not generative AI is a sustainable product from a sustainable industry, we have critical work to do to instigate a public reckoning around the value of critical reading and writing. We cannot continue to cede ground on this issue of what people need to survive and thrive, and we must endeavor to forge new alliances through deepening network ties with ostensible comrades in public-facing industries.

Dana J. Gavin

Titel: Generative AI and the Future of the Humanities
Verfasst von: Dana J. Gavin
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-032-06534-6
Print ISBN: 978-3-032-06533-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06534-6

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. The Luddite’s Battle Cry

Chapter 2. Through a Glass, Darkly: Generative AI and Writing

Chapter 3. Making Bricks Without Clay: Generative AI and Reading

Chapter 4. “And Then there Were None”: Generative AI and Labor

Chapter 5. Sowers of Discord and Scandal: Generative AI and the Student/Educator Connection

Chapter 6. Deep, : The Way Forward is Through

Backmatter

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