With the advent of AI in the last few years, historians are grappling with the question of how these new tools will affect historical knowledge production. Yet questioning the impact of new technologies on the profession is hardly new. For decades, historians have raised fundamental epistemological and methodological questions when confronted with new technologies, yet this is often forgotten in favor of a rhetoric of radical newness and future promises. Recent scholarship is beginning to change this, however. As the praxeological turn in the history of the humanities and historiography has taken hold over the past two decades, scholars have begun to investigate the role of technology in the creation of historical knowledge.[1] More recently, the history of digital history has emerged as a new avenue of research.[2] Nonetheless, the strongest interest in the history of digital history manifests in the history of the humanities and the history of knowledge, and not in the field itself.
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