Canon Fodder

“‘A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience, and you can’t get that out of AI,’ said Peggy Urdan, a government and neuroscience major from Lexington, Mass. ‘The only way to get anything out of this class is to not use AI.’ At the core of the humanities is, of course, humanity.” WSJ (Gift Article): The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take (alt link). “It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?” Either it’s a tiny backlash to AI, or the students really liked watching The Odyssey.