There is a huge volume on LLMs in history, sociology and philosophy of science out today. Open Access, free pdf download (thank you transcript publishing house)!!
@spinfocl and I have a contribution in it as well:
Jürgen Hermes, Andreas Wagner: "Encoded humanities, or: not everything has to be generative. A dialogue on AI tasks and roles", in: Arno Simons / Adrian Wüthrich / Michael Zichert / Gerd Graßhoff (Eds.): Understanding Science with Large Language Models? Potentials for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Bielefeld: transcript, 2026, pp. 101-114. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447529
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7994-6/understanding-science-with-large-language-models/
To be honest, I am more than a bit proud of what Jürgen and I did there. In some of the issues that we have identified and discussed, there has been some development since. But they're not solved yet (by far), and the developments show that we were onto real challenges, i.e. problems both pressing and difficult to solve...
