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Vice Provost/Dean of the Library/Professor of History @Northeastern | Newsletter @humaneingenuity | Host of @podcastwhatsnew | Views are my own

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AI models are now ingesting scholarly content in an attempt to dispel their hallucinations. But another possibility looms: that AI will instead drag down scholarship into its muddy realm. A new essay on my newsletter: “AI Is Coming for Scholarship Next" newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane…

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“If they — and we — fail to stem the tide of AI-generated academic work, that very work will come into question, and one of the last wells of careful writing, of deep thought, of debate supported by evidence, might be fatally poisoned.”

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New issue of my newsletter is out: "Humane Ingenuity 48: Reading and Writing" — With the new school year coming, my letter to students about using AI bots to write; an update on a lawsuit I wrote about earlier this year in The Atlantic; professorial blogs newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane…

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"AI will undoubtedly have a place in our new world, but it's up to us to locate that place, and to rightsize it. The future is not auto-generated like text from ChatGPT. We are its authors." newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane…

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This essay by Dan Bouk, which asks "Is it possible to train students to use something like ChatGPT in a manner that is appropriate? Or right? Or ethical? Or, most fundamentally, good?” is appropriate, right, ethical, and good: buttondown.email/danbouk/archiv…

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The Northeastern University Library is hiring a Text Mining Specialist — I think this is a really interesting position in our growing, innovative library. Please apply if this sounds like you! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/…

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A sweet story about a son finding something special in a book his late mother gave him 20 years ago: “It Happened Through a Book”: chrisglass.com/2023/09/25/it-…

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New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 52: Is Science Becoming Conceptual Art?” — A combination of new technologies may represent a new era for science, but one in which the lone scientist may no longer need her lab mates. Is that a good thing? newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane…

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Books are Big AI's Achilles Heel Check out our latest by Dave Hansen & Dan Cohen about why books are so important for AI and how public interest libraries can help prevent the monopolization of books as training data authorsalliance.substack.com/p/books-are-bi…

Books are Big AI's Achilles Heel

Check out our latest by <a href="/DigLibCopyright/">Dave Hansen</a> &amp; <a href="/dancohen/">Dan Cohen</a> about why books are so important for AI  and how public interest libraries can help prevent the monopolization of books as training data

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New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 53: Books are Big AI's Achilles Heel”—AI companies may have the money & the data centers, but they are badly in need of what humble libraries have in abundance.(Co-authored with Dave Hansen of Authors Alliance) newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane…

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New issue of my newsletter: “AI Comes for Music” — As the record labels sue AI companies for generating derivative songs, let us ask: What makes a song original and human anyway? (Includes non-spoiler references to Robin Sloan’s new novel Moonbound.) newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/ai-com…

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New issue of my newsletter: “Break Expectations” — Where does the ability of AI to mimic human expression end? Poetry provides a helpful case study newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/breaki…

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New issue of my newsletter: “No Happy Medium for Books” — A court ruling curtails the circulation of the written word newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/no-hap…

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New issue of my newsletter: “Synths and Sensibility” — From Beethoven to Kraftwerk, innovative artists have used new technology to make music more human, not less newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/synths…

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New issue of my newsletter: “The Unresolved Tension Between AI and Learning” — If education is accelerated using AI, will we lose some crucial aspects of learning that will prove to be problematic? newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-un…