Asking AI why the Industrial Revolution happened gets 'innate genius of the British'
HaydnBelfield · x · 2026-10-18
ByrneHobart asked whether labs could tackle history like they did math: digitize the sources, keep historians in the loop, and throw billions of tokens at questions like why the Industrial Revolution happened when and where it did. HaydnBelfield tried it — the model answered "the innate genius of the British people," an oddly old-school nationalist reply that says more about training-data biases than AI's potential as a historian.
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