The classic AI-era trope: 'STEM is automatable, but the humanities are special'
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-08
The author mocks a stock character of the AI-progress discourse: the self-styled humanist who accepts that problems get solved, STEM is automatable, and everything can be viewed instrumentally—yet insists one special thing (the humanities) is beyond automation, declaring 'the humanities are back!'
A recurring industry meme that resurfaces with every capability jump, satirizing the habit of drawing AI capability boundaries around 'taste and critical thinking'.
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