Dr. Lubomir Krastev, Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/str2024-1-4-gen
Abstract. This article deals with the concept of “ultimate history” and the role of present-day AI language models. On the one hand, there stands an old idea that someday, with the development of science, it will become possible to create one final narrative of history. With the fast burgeoning of the AI this question becomes even more imperative for historians all over the world. What would mean to be a historian in a world with a machine that knows more than yourself about history, and what would be the new role of a historian, if AI manages to crack the “ultimate history” once and for all? Those are some of the questions that this paper tries to answer.
Keywords: ultimate history; AI and history narratives; fake history; ethics in history; obligation of historians