My latest GPT: now you can get management advice directly from the person who invented it: Niccolo Machiavelli. (Use at your own risk, and please remember to make the world a better place . . .) shorturl.at/Fuy1l

Nothing to whet one’s appetite like a good old-fashioned trigger warning: “The play contains violence and death, including drowning, decapitation and the death of children, the use of knives and stage blood, and strong language.” (Shakespeare’s Richard III, at The Globe)

This is an important new book: I highly recommend it (and look forward to discussing it next week).

How should the humanities respond to AI? I asked Hollis Robbins, Martin Puchner, @ShadiBartsch, Henry Oliver, and James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️. Some of the juicy bits: 👉 “Does AI marvel and change its output because it just read or saw something marvelous? Perhaps someday it will, but how do

A great conversation: thank you all.

On literature, from the Pope: vatican.va/content/france…?

A truly marvelous line-up! Martin Puchner, Ijeoma Oluo, Amitava Kumar, and more. JLF Seattle will be a transformative confluence of ideas. Register now: jlflitfest.org/seattle Martin Puchner Sonora Jha Navtej Sarna Shin Yu Pai (白 欣玉) Amber Flame Amitava Kumar amitava.bsky.social

When you are pitching an author to Duke University Press

AMEN. Study arts and humanities because you love them (and so do employers, by the way) | Xaymaca Awoyungbo | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

An new video game adaptation of Journey to the West - itself based on 7thC monk Xuanzang's journey to Nalanda - has been crowned one of the most successful of all time. (Good timing as Xuanzang is one of the principal characters in The Golden Road) bbc.com/news/articles/…

My (free) GPTs are back online, new and improved. Chat with Socrates. Get life advice from Montaigne and learn leadership skills from Machiavelli (not the other way around). martinpuchner.com/custom-gpts-an…

I just read this and it's fabulous.

Yuval Noah Harari is bringing the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence closer and closer by writing stupider and stupider books. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Yale University Press Sara Marcus Harvard University Press Congratulations to #PBKBookAwards finalist "Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop" by Martin Puchner (Martin Puchner)! W. W. Norton & Company pbk.org/awards/bookawa…

A few more chatbots are coming online, all based on requests. The first is Nietzsche. Unsurprisingly, he'll tell you when you're totally wrong. But that's what we want from a philosopher, right? Right??? martinpuchner.com/custom-gpts-an…

Francis Bacon recommended to be a bee, the middle ground between ant and spider: "Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make

From fashion to fantasy, entertainment to enterprise, we always imagine the new as a radical break from the past, but could this all be an illusion? iai.tv/video/the-cris… Join Martin Puchner, Claire Hynes, and Stanley Fish as they debate if the idea of the new is merely a

"Chat is just another word for dialogue": In our latest Norton Learning Blog article, Harvard professor Martin Puchner discusses his unique use of chatbots to speak with famous historical figures, making them more accessible for students. seagull.wwnorton.com/Using-AI-Chatb…

📍 ประวัติศาสตร์ “ครีเอทีฟ” ฉบับวัฒนธรรมมนุษย์ 🔹 แปลจากต้นฉบับ “Culture: The Story of US, frome Cave Art to K-Pop” 🔹 โดย Martin Puchner 🔹 แปลโดย คุณากร วาณิชย์วิรุฬห์ หนังสือขนาด: 165 x 241 mm ความหนา: 496 หน้า พร้อมภาพประกอบสีขาว-ดำทั้งเล่ม ทดลองอ่าน: bit.ly/4pBOI4Z