Scholar writes AI-assisted book on storytelling values, work nominated for EMNLP best paper
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-20
A humanities scholar is writing a fully AI-assisted book on the "lessons of stories" — a global history of the values encoded in storytelling — aiming to demonstrate how AI can support the humanities.
- Data collection: he uses AI to survey the messy, uneven landscape of world literature and build story collections.
- Evaluating AI behavior: he has extensively tested how well AI succeeds or fails at interpreting values in stories from different cultural positions; the resulting paper was nominated for best paper at EMNLP.
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