Abstract:

The Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRlDH) have participated in projects within various humanities fields that utilise as well as develop research tools and infrastructural resources that incorporate applications of ‘artificial intelligence’(Al). These applications can include natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, large language models, image recognition algorithms, classification, clustering, and deep learning. This paper advances the term ‘humanistic Al’ to describe an emergent form of interdisciplinary practice that uses and develops Al-based research applications to answer humanities research questions together with its entangled humanistic reflection. We coin this term to make implicit and visible the epistemological and material particularities of its practice and the new forms of knowledge its affordances make possible. The paper presents GRlDH projects within ‘humanistic Al’ together with its developed Al resources and applications.

Key words: research infrastructure , interdisciplinarity , critical digital humanities , artificial intelligence