Inteligența artificială și studiile umaniste
Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities

Summary/Abstract: This dossier explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and the humanities through two complementary perspectives. The first article offers a comparative investigation of literary and religious hermeneutics by confronting human interpretation with responses generated by ChatGPT. Focusing on Franz Kafka's parable Before the Law and the biblical account of Zacchaeus, it evaluates both the interpretive potential and the limitations of large language models, arguing that while AI can rapidly synthesize existing knowledge and produce coherent interpretive frameworks, it remains dependent on human guidance, contextual judgment, and intuitive insight. The second article examines the historical trajectory of Web 2.0, tracing the rise and decline of its democratizing ideals. It argues that the participatory promises of the early internet have gradually given way to new forms of manipulation, algorithmic influence, and epistemic instability, culminating in the emergence of generative AI as both a product and a symptom of this transformation. Read together, the two contributions provide a critical reflection on the opportunities and challenges posed by artificial intelligence for the humanities, emphasizing the need to preserve human interpretive agency, critical thinking, and ethical responsibility in an increasingly AI-mediated cultural landscape.

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