Video and audio recordings of the Royal Historical Society’s latest event — ‘AI, History and Historians’ — are now available.
This discussion (held on 17 July 2024) brought together a panel of experts to consider the opportunities and challenges of new AI technology in the field of History.
Topics included the use of AI in university assessments, detecting and mitigating dataset biases, environmental impacts of generative AI, and challenges for historians around using AI as the latest new technology to bring change to research and teaching practices. You can watch / listen to the recordings below or read more about the impact of AI on the field of history in this recent RHS blog post, written by Adam Budd, Secretary for Education at the Royal Historical Society.
With contributions from our panellists
- Helen Hastie (Professor of Human-Robot Interaction at the University of Edinburgh and Head of School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh)
- Matthew L. Jones (Smith Family Professor of History at Princeton University and co-author of How Data Happened, a history of the science, politics, and power of data, statistics, and machine learning from the 1800s to the present (2023)
- Anna-Maria Sichani (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
- Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Vice-President, Publications, for the Royal Historical Society, chair)