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Humanist Archives: July 26, 2026, 9:48 a.m. Humanist 40.99 - AI's place in research

				
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        Date: 2026-07-25 15:50:35+00:00
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 40.98: can LLMs conceal unfinished research?

Interesting and possibly useful, but I would cut this out of the loop
completely:

→ interpretation → argument → stress test →

Leave that up to authors and peer reviewers. This is the point at which AI
would be doing your thinking for you.

Jim R


On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 4:14 AM Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:

>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I would like to raise a methodological question that has emerged from my
> recent experiments with AI-assisted humanities research:
>
> Can a language model support humanities scholarship without allowing fluent
> prose to conceal unfinished research?
>
>


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