„Der Philosoph John Stuart Mill hatte eine Co-Autorin“ – Forschende am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie wenden KI in den Geisteswissenschaften an. - Campus-Report am 04.10.2022

Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has become indispensable in the natural sciences. Whether it is the early detection of skin cancer through image analysis or the reliable prediction of the occurrence of storms in meteorology, nothing works today without self-learning computer programs. In the humanities, on the other hand, there are still reservations. Here, too, the search for clues with artificial intelligence could provide unexpected insights. With the help of self-learning computer programs, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have now answered a question that has long been the subject of passionate debate in the history of philosophy: did the most important political philosopher of the 19th century, John Stuart Mill, write his influential essay “On Freedom” alone or did his partner and lover Harriet Taylor Mill also formulated the text?