Will AI Replace Historians?

Gather historical data from sources such as archives, court records, diaries, news files, and photographs, as well as from books, pamphlets, and periodicals.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Organize data, and analyze and interpret its authenticity and relative significance.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Prepare publications and exhibits, or review those prepared by others, to ensure their historical accuracy.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Organize information for publication and for other means of dissemination, such as via storage media or the Internet.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conduct historical research as a basis for the identification, conservation, and reconstruction of historic places and materials.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conserve and preserve manuscripts, records, and other artifacts.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Present historical accounts in terms of individuals or social, ethnic, political, economic, or geographic groupings.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Research the history of a particular country or region, or of a specific time period.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conduct historical research, and publish or present findings and theories.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Determine which topics to research, or pursue research topics specified by clients or employers.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Recommend actions related to historical art, such as which items to add to a collection or which items to display in an exhibit.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Research and prepare manuscripts in support of public programming and the development of exhibits at historic sites, museums, libraries, and archives.

Software coding, programming, or application development task highly susceptible to automated generation.

Speak to various groups, organizations, and clubs to promote the aims and activities of historical societies.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Advise or consult with individuals and institutions regarding issues such as the historical authenticity of materials or the customs of a specific historical period.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Interview people to gather information about historical events and to record oral histories.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Trace historical development in a particular field, such as social, cultural, political, or diplomatic history.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Coordinate activities of workers engaged in cataloging and filing materials.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Collect detailed information on individuals for use in biographies.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, museums, and other research agencies and schools.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Edit historical society publications.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Translate or request translation of reference materials.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.