Citation: Alan Liu, “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI,” 5 October 2025 (rev. 6 Oct. 1025), https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-definitions-research-project-an-experiment-with-agentic-ai/

Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI
  1. Overview
  2. The Prompt
  3. The Output
  4. Conclusion
    1. AI’s Conclusion (written by Fellou)
    2. Human’s Conclusion (written by Alan Liu)

Overview

This in-progress “Humanities Definitions Research Project” using the Fellou.ai agentic browser (home page |  “quick tour”) was conducted as an experiment with agentic AI. Fellou is an early leader in the field of “agentic AIs” for research tasks (reviews of Fellou: example 1 | example 2). My ultimate goal with this project is to assist the new Center for Humanities Communication, which I cofounded, in gathering definitions of, and statements about, the humanities that can facilitate the development of training workshops and resources for communicating what the humanities are and do. But my immediate goal is just to test how useful agentic AI can be at its present level of development for research tasks that are difficult for humans to accomplish efficiently, systematically, or in well-planned ways…. [continued]

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