Books Humanities Technology 
Dan Cohen
APRIL 7, 2021
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the many datasets we’ve wrestled with this year, it’s that all the data — every single point — is the result of human decision-making. As majors have sharply declined over the last decade, a thousand verbose defenses of the humanities have been published.
HEPI
MARCH 3, 2024
On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.
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Dan Cohen
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Before one can become a Cassandra or Pollyanna about the uses or abuses of impressive text-to-image AI tools like DALL•E and Midjourney , it is worth stepping back and reflecting about the fundamental nature of this new technology. But then again, it also competently echoed the science fiction book covers of my childhood.
Dan Cohen
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Are books, for instance, going to have associated NFTs? She projected forward by looking backward, specifically by finding detailed descriptions of the river and its morphology in old books. Previously covered in Humane Ingenuity : the potent combination of human expertise and AI processing. Scaife, et al.
HEPI
JUNE 20, 2023
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.
Dan Cohen
JANUARY 24, 2022
Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.
Faculty Focus
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
In “Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change,” Dr. Leo S. He delves into the disruptions that AI, and technological automation in general, can have on society. Finding the “handprints” We need to get better at doing the kinds of uniquely human things that only we can do.
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