SMBC comic skewers the humanities in the age of superintelligent AI
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-10-27
Zach Weinersmith's SMBC comic features an "Evil Bachelor of the Arts Society" villain explaining why funding flooded into computational sciences — and reveals his real motive: his superintelligent AI now auto-generates infinite new theorems, leaving humanities scholars with nothing to do but "organize the AI's documentation." A sharp meme hitting the humanities-vs-STEM anxiety of the AI era.
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