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Dan Cohen

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Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing

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Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 3w ago

A new essay: “Perils of the New Armchair Scholarship” — Like nineteenth-century scholars who wrote about the world without deeply engaging with it, academics who lean too heavily on AI risk becoming paper-thin newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/peri...

Perils of the New Armchair Scholarship

Like nineteenth-century scholars who wrote about the world without deeply engaging with it, academics who lean too heavily on AI risk becoming paper-thin

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Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 8mo ago

I have now tested this with Claude 4.5 Opus and it's as good as Gemini 3 Pro, nearly perfect transcriptions. And I've gotten a lot of email that they also work well on non-English-language transcriptions & have heard from some libraries/archives that AI has finally reached a state of usefulness here

Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 8mo ago

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

Jean Maguire@jeanm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Northeastern University Library has developed a server and plugin that work with any LLM or chatbot to improve search results and answer the question “What if we could combine the LLM’s better understanding of a student’s aims with the rigorous index and robust collection of a research library?”

Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 10mo ago

New issue of my newsletter: “The Library’s New Entryway” — An interface that combines the advantages of the traditional index with the power of LLMs is the path forward newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 11mo ago

I have updated my in-depth analysis of Bartz v Anthropic to reflect this important and overlooked aspect of the proposed settlement: “In what may be a rude surprise for authors, partial or full payments for many books may go to publishers rather than authors.” newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/land...

Will a Landmark AI Settlement Make Authors Feel Whole?

The remuneration from Bartz v. Anthropic may not provide what writers really want: respect, recognition, and readers

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Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 12mo ago

New issue of my newsletter: “AI and Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Loosely Coupled"—A new framework provides a way for cultural heritage institutions to take advantage of the tech with fewer misgivings, and to serve students, scholars, and the public better newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/ai-a...

AI and Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Loosely Coupled

A new framework provides a way for cultural heritage institutions to take advantage of the technology with fewer misgivings, and to serve students, scholars, and the public better

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