Humanities scholar pivots to human-centred storytelling as AI saturates text analysis
_akpiper · x · 2026-11-10
A humanities researcher describes catching "the mathematicians' bug": AI can now do large-scale text analysis for anyone, on any question, anytime — leaving little future value for "us humans." His discipline went from formation to saturation in about 10 years, versus math's several thousand.
His response is a pivot, not full AI adoption: focusing on human-centred approaches to storytelling, shifting from the "expert tells you the answer" model (professor or AI) toward "collective meaning" — what people see, know, and feel — as the novel path forward.
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