Congist’24 Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice

Session

Keynote Session 3

KS3

19 Dec 2024, 10:50

Kurul Odası (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

AI and the Death of the Author

Hub Zwart (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

19/12/2024, 10:50

Oral Presentation

The concept of the humanities (“Geisteswissenschaft”) as a specific domain of enquiry was minted in the 19th century by scholars who wished to distance themselves from the emerging world of the natural sciences, of disruptive technologies and powerful machines. Their aim was closely connected with the concern to safeguard the humanness of human beings in the face of dehumanizing tendencies...