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AI and the Historian: Interview with John Lewis Gaddis - The Politic

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John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale. Named the  “Dean of Cold War Historians” by The New York Times, his landmark works include Strategies of Containment, The Cold War: A New History, The Landscape of History, and On Grand Strategy. In 2012, Gaddis won the Pulitzer Prize for the official biography of the diplomat George F. Kennan. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal who advised President George W. Bush and his speechwriters, Gaddis is the founding director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and winner of multiple undergraduate teaching awards. Gaddis has incorporated AI into both his teaching and his research, using it to test the same questions about patterns, judgment, and interpretation that have defined his work for decades. In your class, you had students interrogate AI—take its answer, then push back and ask how it knows what it claims to know. So I ran your experiment on you. I asked ChatGPT who John L

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale. Named the “Dean of Cold War Historians” by The New York Times, his landmark works include Strategies of Containment, The Cold War: A New History, The Landscape of History, and On Grand Strategy. In 2012, Gaddis won the Pulitzer Prize for the official biography of the diplomat George F. Kennan. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal who advised President George W. Bush and his speechwriters, Gaddis is the founding director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and winner of multiple…

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