In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, liberal arts education in universities has undergone exploratory transformation. From the launch of the "Chinese Language and Literature+Artificial Intelligence" dual bachelor's program at Beijing Normal University to the exploration of the "AI+Cultural Innovation" direction at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the practice of "AI+Humanities" is being carried out in multiple universities. In the past period, there was a certain gap between talent cultivation and social demand in some liberal arts majors. The update of the curriculum system is relatively slow, the knowledge structure cannot keep up with the development of the industry, and the ability of graduates to transform skills is insufficient. The attitude of universities towards the entry of artificial intelligence into the classroom has also undergone a shift from cautious prevention to standardized guidance. Nowadays, universities introducing AI tools in writing training, language learning, literature analysis, and other aspects is a practical choice to respond to social needs. AI can undertake a large amount of tasks such as information retrieval, preliminary text processing, and corpus statistical analysis, allowing students to devote more energy to analysis and judgment. A student may need several weeks to organize the literature, but with the help of AI, it may take several hours to complete. At the same time, AI is constantly giving birth to new interdisciplinary fields such as digital humanities, computational social sciences, intelligent language analysis, etc., providing students with more diverse growth paths. However, some explorations still remain at the formal level. The major has changed its name, but the training program lacks substantial changes; The number of courses has increased, but there is a lack of deep connection with professional learning. This approach of replacing transformation with labels is difficult to achieve the true value of liberal arts education and cultivate high-quality talents. The improvement of tool efficiency cannot replace the core values of liberal arts education. AI can generate structurally complete text, but cannot replace students' independent thinking in reading, comparing, and reflecting; AI can assist in language conversion, but cannot cultivate the ability to understand differences and engage in dialogue in different cultural contexts. The core of liberal arts education is to cultivate individuals who can maintain independent thinking and make rational judgments in complex information environments. Therefore, the key to promoting the integration of "AI+humanities" lies in handling the relationship between technological tools and humanities education, so that artificial intelligence can play a more tool empowering role. True integration is not simply adding prefixes of "numbers" and "intelligence" to the names of majors, or adding introductory courses to the curriculum, but rather allowing AI to truly enter the core curriculum system. Some universities have already conducted explorations that are suitable for themselves, such as building various professional digital resource libraries in ancient Chinese language teaching, including holographic databases of ancient Chinese characters, digital resource libraries of historical inscriptions and handwritten characters, etc., and independently developing ancient Chinese language models and scenario based intelligent teaching assistant platforms, covering thousands of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral courses. These technologies can not only assist in document organization, language research, and dictionary compilation, but also be incorporated into curriculum teaching to enhance students' abilities in learning and researching ancient Chinese. Embracing artificial intelligence in liberal arts education is a comprehensive transformation involving curriculum system, teaching philosophy, and talent cultivation mode. With the continuous advancement of technology, humanities also need to seek new development paths under new era conditions. (New Society)
Edit:Momo Responsible editor:Chen zhaozhao
Source:People's Daily
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