Harvard's toughest humanities class is suddenly popular as AI revives interest in the humanities
begusgasper · x · 2026-10-29
The WSJ reports that Harvard's most brutal class—a humanities course—is suddenly in high demand. UC Berkeley professor Nina Beguš frames this as a prediction coming true: the humanities will shine in the age of AI, and points to her new book "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI" (University of Michigan Press), which examines language in AI through a fictional/narrative lens.
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