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How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?
Finally, a benchmark for LLMs with real-world value
 • Benjamin Breen
Can automation help make the humanities more human?
Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more important today than ever before in history
 • Benjamin Breen
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
 • Benjamin Breen
All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
 • Benjamin Breen
OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
 • Benjamin Breen
AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
 • Benjamin Breen
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
 • Benjamin Breen
AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
 • Benjamin Breen
The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
 • Benjamin Breen
The leading AI models are now good historians
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
 • Benjamin Breen
Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
 • Benjamin Breen
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
 • Benjamin Breen
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