Henry Farrell at Colm: LLMs are magical creatures feeding on decades of human creativity
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-09
At Colm, Henry Farrell's keynote offered what Yoav Goldberg called an amazing insight: LLMs aren't magical creatures, but magical creatures that feed on decades of human creativity. Farrell argued the humanities must be involved to surface and make use of such insights about AI.
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