Pasts Imperfect

Joseph Howley contributed an article to Pasts Imperfect examining the growing role of artificial intelligence in higher education. Drawing on historical analogy from the ancient world, the piece critiques claims of AI’s inevitability and reflects on how the automation of literacy risks devaluing human intellectual labor and critical thought.

“The reclassification of certain kinds of labor as unskilled rather than skilled, non-professional as opposed to professional—and thus less worthy of dignity and rights—is presented as inevitable. But producing this kind of ontological difference has a long and troubling history.”

Read the full article here.