Anders Ravn Sørensen
@ravnsorensen.bsky.social
Exited and concerned about AI and our understanding of history. Historian / AI / historical methods / experimental dissemination.
Thoughtful essay on how AI is impacting the history diccplin. I’m on the engage team. activehistory.ca/blog/2026/09...
How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…
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AI Co-Historian” is apparently a thing now. Researchers at Oxford and Fraunhofer have developed Chronos, an AI system built specifically for historical research and working with digitised primary sources. But at what point does a research tool become a co-historian? ai-historian.com
The AI Historian
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My new open access article is out in Historisk Tidsskrift. I argue that genAI is not just another digital tool for historians—it challenges the relationship between historical knowledge, evidence, didactics and phenomenology. Read it here (in Danish): tidsskrift.dk/historisktid... #AI #history
According to Microsoft, genAI will render historians completely useless and irrelevant! Algorithms will take our jobs. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... I really don’t agree. But we need to push back on such ideas that designate historians as accountants of the past. #history #historians #AI
Historikere er totalt irrelevante..... Er til konference om AI & historie på Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. https://lnkd.in/dF5dYY-4 Anna Neovesky holdt en spændende - ...
Historikere er totalt irrelevante..... Er til konference om AI & historie på Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. https://lnkd.in/dF5dYY-4 Anna Neovesky holdt en spændende - men ...
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If you enjoy using NotebookLM - maybe for creating summary podcasts of research articles or books, I would really think twice. Try reading Rettberg (2026) introducing the concepts of ‘synthetic empathy’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLM - Jill Walker Rettberg, 2026
This paper analyses AI-generated podcasts produced by Google’s NotebookLM, which generates audio podcasts where two chatty AI hosts discuss whichever documents ...
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At the conference AI in history at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History I was introduced to the OECDs general framework of AI literacy. Really important, and I would hope history educations to follow the example. www.oecd.org/en/events/pu...
AILit Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a widely used tool in our everyday life, including for learning, personalised assistance, and entertainment. Therefore, young people must be able to understand ...
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Chloe vs. History AI influencers are now “travelling” to Tudor London, Ancient Rome, and even the Titanic through generated video. Part of me loves it. It’s a historian’s dream to step into past worlds, and I can easily imagine huge educational value. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sd1...
I time travelled to Tudor London in 1536! (Vlog)
YouTube video by Chloe VS History
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On genAI image generators an how they risk producing an ‘algorithmic tourist gaze’ of the past contributing, to synthetic collective memory. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On the Historical Gaze of Generative AI: Visions of Scandinavia in Stable Diffusion
This article critically explores how the AI image model Stable Diffusion generates visual histories of Scandinavia in the 1930s. While the past has always been mediated, this study suggests that ge...
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A great initiative by AHR in an effort historicize genAI and open up for the seemingly radical technology in historical perspective. www.historians.org/news-publica... #history #genAI #Americanhistoricalreview #historians #historyoftechnology #AI
AHR Call for Proposals: AI in Historical Perspectives
The AHR calls for proposals for essays that frame AI not as a contemporary technology to be used or rejected but instead as a historical and historiographic phenomenon to be contextualized, interrogat...
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Looking forward to this one. I have the felling that secondary education teachers engage more with AI-didactics than university professors. AI i historie viden.ai/ai-i-historie/
AI i historie
AI i historie – praksis og øvelser henvender sig til historielærere og giver et fagligt perspektiv på, hvordan kunstig intelligens kan inddrages i historieundervisningen.
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📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +
How Fast Was the Mail?
Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.
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My Danish colleague @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social is in the historians laboratory at @nationalmuseet.dk eagerly feeding his LLMs large bodies of Danish sources that were previously underused by scholars. Now the material is springing to life 🤖 www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...
Jeg hygger mig med at skabe robotter. Eller egentligt er det sprogmodeller, hvor jeg styrer deres vidensrum, men det føles som nyttige robotter, der hjælper mig med min historiske forskning og… | Benj...
Jeg hygger mig med at skabe robotter. Eller egentligt er det sprogmodeller, hvor jeg styrer deres vidensrum, men det føles som nyttige robotter, der hjælper mig med min historiske forskning og museums...
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We need to very carefull if using AI for references and litteratur searches. That for sure. I had my own creepy wake-up call recently when I asked ChatGPT to take REAL existing references and edit them for a specific journal standard. www.historica.org/blog/ai-in-h...
AI in Historical Research: 2025 Trends & Insights
How AI transforms historical research while keeping human expertise central.
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#talkabouthumanities | American Historical Association
We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Historians analyze sources, challenge assumptions, and piece together complex stories from the past. Their work turns fragments into knowle...
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A sharp piece in The Guardian draws on Marc Bloch and WWII to make a point about AI, that societies often misunderstand transformative technologies. Worth a read if you think history has anything to teach us about AI (it does). #AI #History #Tech www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI | Letters
Letter: Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligence
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Interesting anthology by Todd Presner on algorithmic ethics and holocaust remembering. For good and for worse approaching an algorithmic phenomenology? #skyhistorians #history #genai #holocaust press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Ethics of the Algorithm
How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony
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Really interesting new initiative by @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social: using language models to reconstruct and communicate 18th-century Copenhagen month by month, grounded in historical newspapers and sources. #history #genAI gamlenyheder.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/1...
Historians may need to rethink ethics in the age of AI. If artificial historians can produce meaningful histories without intentions, then “practical ethics” might not be a human trait at all, but a feature of historiographical logic itself. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS
Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificia...
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Want to recommend Marnie Hughes-Warrington’s Artificial Historians. Loved her talk at a conference last week, where she asked the audience if they wanted to publish a research article written by AI? The scary answer: we are doing it already without knowing it. www.routledge.com/Artificial-H...
Artificial Historians
This book offers readers an introduction to the world of artificial histories and historians. It looks behind the interfaces of AI and explores everyday platforms and prize-winning history books to id...
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Hello History! This app offers user to chat with an array of historical figures with RAG technology m. From Napoleon, Tupac and Jesus. Moving experience of the past closer to an algorithmic epistemology.
A historian tested AI on a clean, structured Tudor dataset. The result wasn’t random but coherent, plausible interpretation that simply wasn’t true. Still some way from completely trusting gAI 😳 www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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“We want AI to read sources the way historians do” A new Stanford project is trying to build AI that doesn’t just write history — but actually thinks like a historian. Shifting AI in the humanities from text generation to transparent knowledge production? news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
AI project aims to advance research into the past
A new approach could accelerate historical analysis by teaching AI to read documents like scholars do.
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The real challenge of AI may not be intelligence, but whether we can still deliberate together. 🙏 www.bbc.com/news/article...
German philosopher and social critic Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
One the most influential thinkers in post-war Germany, he linked philosophy and political action throughout his life.
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Really a lot of exiting projects! chc.au.dk
Center for Humanities Computing | Aarhus University
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It might not be as pedagogically sound as one might have hope to chat with Cleopatra or Churchill as ChatGPT RAG-personas. Students tend to ask factual questions rather than questions that could cultivate historical consciousness. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
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AI is not just changing what humanists study. It is changing how they produce knowledge. This review article maps how AI is already being used across the Hunanities. What happens to interpretation and evidence and authority? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A review of AI applications in Human Sciences research
This paper compiles the most relevant contributions of AI technology in the field of Human Sciences. It reveals the development of different applicati…
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Topic-RAG allows historians (and humanities scholars broadly) to search, say, old newspaper, not only for keywords, but for abstract concepts like ‘greed’ or ‘fear’ by organisering sources in thematic clusters. @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social #skyehistorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Topic-RAG for historical newspapers: Enhancing information retrieval in humanities research through topic-based retrieval-augmented generation | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Topic-RAG for historical newspapers: Enhancing information retrieval in humanities research through topic-based retrieval-augmented generation - Volume 1
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The historian’s digital doping? I know this is a couple of years old, but I just found it. It’s excellent- and it’s open source #history #skyhistorians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
DIGITAL DOPING FOR HISTORIANS: CAN HISTORY, MEMORY, AND HISTORICAL THEORY BE RENDERED ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT?
Artificial intelligence is making history, literally. Machine learning tools are playing a key role in crafting images and stories about the past in popular culture. AI has probably also already inva...
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