The case for AI labs to fund historical research

EMEthan Mollick@emollick4:00 PM · Sep 24, 2026

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All of this effort from the AI labs pouring into proofs, but there are so many other interesting problems in other fields For example, this historian used AI to make progress on the cyphers of John Dee & the intellectual antecedents that Darwin drew from.

substack.comAI labs need to start funding historical researchUsing GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters