humanities

HSS-Synth introduces the first data synthesis pipeline for humanities and social sciences, producing 237k high-quality instruction-tuning samples that outperform baselines and set new SOTA on Qwen3-8B.

BridgeAlign proposes a preference-alignment pipeline for humanities and social sciences, generating 210k synthetic preference samples and enabling Qwen3-8B to achieve strong results across 17 benchmarks.

This essay analyzes the alignment of language models through the lens of 'optimization culture,' arguing that the focus on measurable improvement has shifted AI from exploratory engagement to administrative tedium, and that optimization procedures cannot distinguish between error and invention.

AI labs are increasingly hiring philosophy majors for their critical thinking and contrarian perspectives, challenging stereotypes about the value of humanities degrees.

This paper discusses the need for multilingual LLMs that are epistemically grounded and responsible for applications in computational social science and humanities.

This paper presents QuestBench, a benchmark built by students to evaluate deep research systems across humanities and social science domains. Results show that even advanced systems like GPT-5.5 pass only 57.58% of questions, highlighting failures in trustworthiness.

Graduates of UCF's College of Arts and Humanities booed commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield after she called AI the 'next industrial revolution', highlighting tensions between tech enthusiasm and concerns from humanities students.

MIT SHASS Dean Agustín Rayo discusses the role of humanities and social sciences in preparing students for the age of AI, emphasizing critical thinking and moral judgment over technical adaptation.