History of Art and Architecture

Nygren co-authors reflection on art history and AI

Writing for the Spring 2025 issue of ICMA News, the newsletter of the International Center of Medieval Art, Christopher Nygren and collaborator Sonja Drimmer reflect on the use of AI in the classroom:

"We believe that the intellectual, ethical, and institutional downsides to using this technology are so substantial that normalizing its integration into pedagogy poses risks that far outweigh whatever benefits one might associate with it. In fact, we would argue that thus far the only benefits to using AI in art historical research have been to demonstrate how poorly equipped it is to conduct research in the historical humanities."

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