Forum for Anthropology and Culture. 2024. No. 20

FORUM: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Albert Baiburin

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
abaiburin()gmail.com

Yuri Berezkin

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
berezkin1()gmail.com

Olga Boitsova

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
boitsova()gmail.com

Andrey Gromov

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
a.v.gromov()mail.ru

Kira Kovalenko

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS
9 Tuchkov Lane, St Petersburg, Russia
kira.kovalenko()gmail.com

Natalia Kovalyova

University of North Texas
7400 University Hills Blvd, Dallas, USA
nvk()utexas.edu

Anna Moskvitina (Siim)

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
anna.siim()gmail.com

Ivan Shirobokov

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
ivansmith()bk.ru

Evgenii Sokolov

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS
9 Tuchkov Lane, St Petersburg, Russia
pan_liwerij()mail.ru

Nadezhda Stanulevich

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RAS
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
nstanulevich()gmail.com

Ilya Utekhin

European University at St Petersburg
6/1A Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Indiana University Bloomington
355 N Eagleson Ave., Bloomington, IN, USA
ilia()eu.spb.ru

Abstract: AI allows work with data to extend well beyond simple keyword searches or formulaic calculations. It is applied to help specialists in the history of art and in discourse analysis as well as in linguistics and physical anthropology who analyse big corpora and construct models. Participants in the “Forum”, a written round table, are representatives of the social sciences and humanities. They describe their contact with such applications in their professional life (whether as a field of study or to practical ends), and discuss what the pluses and minuses of AI in the world of academic work and education are. They also touch upon cases where they knew, or suspected, that a student had submitted work that was actually written by a resource such as ChatGPT. Finally, ethical problems arising in connection with AI are considered.

Keywords: social sciences, humanities, artificial intelligence, AI, neural network.

To cite: ‘Forum: Artificial Intelligence in the Social Sciences and Humanities’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2024, no. 20, pp. 11–60.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2024-20-20-11-60

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/eng020/forum.pdf