Project 2 Rough Draft by Shreya Teotia

Now the Humanities can Disrupt AI Argument

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:12:03 UTC

The text claims that the humanities are crucial for preserving authentic human evolution, rather than relying on the illusion of growth and support posed by AI.

Artificial Being the Key Word

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:16:44 UTC

AI platforms like ChatGPT are marketed to provide critical thinking and reasoning however they lack the ability to actually understand, reason, and have a consciousness like humans

complex brain evolution

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:21:02 UTC

"The human brain evolved over 500 million years to help people make sense of a world

of multifarious objects, within the lived contexts that embed their learning in social relations and affective experiences. Deprived of any such biological or social affordances, today’s machine learning models require arsenals of computer power and thousands of examples of each and every object (pictured from many angles against myriad backgrounds) to achieve

even modest capabilities to navigate the visual world" (author 1).

mimicry over originality

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:25:07 UTC

“It is not appropriate for me to express an opinion on this matter as I am an AI language model and do not have personal knowledge or information about Brett Kavanaugh or any allegations made against him.” Thus, if GPT-3 is a mouth without a brain, ChatGPT is a mouth on a leash: a bland and predictable system that is

less prone to mimic toxic stereotypes but will refuse to offer even basic information on many controversial topics" (author 6).

Sacrificing Truth and Education

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:29:07 UTC

The background work of producing AI applications requires human labor. Corporate companies and figures exploit human labor and puts authentic education at risk in order to market "intelligence".

Data is not diverse

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:33:23 UTC

". . .these celebrated advances, as AI Now Institute co-founder Meredith Whittaker writes in an important paper, “were not due to fundamental scientific breakthroughs.” They were instead “the product of significantly concentrated data and compute resources that reside in the hands of a few large tech corporations.” (author 5).

AI Promotes Anti-Thought Concept

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:39:33 UTC

"If one recurrent problem with LLMs is that they often “hallucinate” sources and make

up facts, a more fundamental concern is that the marketers of these systems encourage

students to regard their writing as task-specific transactions, performed to earn a grade and disconnected from communication or learning. . . text generators sell a fantasy of writing as a frictionless act that borders on anti-thought" (author 2).

Humanities Challenge AI's Extent

sst125 — 2025-10-01 17:42:42 UTC

Humans help propel evolution and growth by reaching the next generations critical analysis, writing skills, and contextual thinking from history and past experiences from the human race. This goes past AI's abilities and extent so it therefore prevents authentic human evolution.

Quote Analysis #2

sst125 — 2025-10-09 03:43:08 UTC

This quote helps better support the main idea because I liked how it references to hallucinating sources. That shows how artificial intelligences doesn't have the capacity to analyze certain forms of education and processes like humans can. The article and quote use the process of writing as an example, mentioning how humans have the potential to write in a way that goes beyond the basic prompt answering or technical breakdowns that AI views the writing process as. Its not as black and white as AI portrays it as and only humans truly have the ability to explore and use the gray area.

Quote Analysis #1

sst125 — 2025-10-09 03:47:00 UTC

These quote help better support the main idea because I like how they references to AI as a mouth without a brain and on a leash. This not only shows how AI has it''s own constraints but it also shows how the research and reasoning provided by chat is not as original as people have thought it to be. Everything that chat spits out is a combination of preexisting knowledge and sources that it markets in a way that seems original but is actually not and requires countless background references for even basic tasks. it also helps better explain the main idea because it highlights the broad and diverse extent humans have gone through to evolve and reach the point we have today, this in juxtaposition with the background and research of AI helps emphasize the constraints of AI.

Quote Analysis #3

sst125 — 2025-10-09 03:53:48 UTC

This quote better helps explain the main idea because it emphasizes on how humans are not benefiting from relying on chat. The quote explains how the research and funds that go into helping AI perform are not as great as they seem, they are instead a result of a few large tech corporations. This shows how in the long run if humans start to heavily depend on AI they are actually creating a backwards trend since they are not diversifying their knowledge or nourishing their curiosities properly.