A great many people who should be paying serious attention to artificial intelligence have been doing something else entirely. The media’s coverage of artificial intelligence has split fairly cleanly along different lines. It is, or ought to be, the appropriate response to the accumulation of evidence now in front of anyone paying serious attention to artificial intelligence. Lewis-Kraus quotes Bender’s co-author, Alex Hanna, dismissing large language models as “mathy maths” and “a racist pile of linear algebra”. [ Our inner idiots unwittingly feed AI models for freeOpens in new window ]The institution of humanities studies – the journals, the citation networks, the career ladders built on niche contributions – is undermined.

Source: The Irish Times February 24, 2026 08:30 UTC