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Using digital humanities methods, it analyzes a 553-article 2024 corpus on AI and highlights creativity as a case study. It proposes a framework for assessing knowledge-worth that is less tied to pre-AI knowledge work and more receptive to future values of generativity. It also situates the question within social, political, and economic accountability structures.","AI VIRTUE: WHAT IS “GOOD” KNOWLEDGE: IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?  \nAlan Liu  \nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara  \nABSTRACT  \nIn the age of AI, what will be good knowledge? This article, which is accepted and forthcoming in a  \nspecial issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI” in 2027, applies digital humanities methods to map  \nepistemic virtues (like “true,” “accurate,” “creative”) used in a corpus of 553 journal articles on AI  \npublished in 2024.“Creativity” comes in for special attention as an example. Exploring this discourse of  \nvalue, the article considers how a framework might be developed for evaluating the knowledge-worth of  \nAI—one less locked into values formed around pre-AI “knowledge work” agents or structures, and more  \nopen to the future values of “generativity.” The essay is supported by an online digital kit for exploring  \ndata models of the corpus of articles on AI it studies.  \nIn the age of generative AI, what will be good knowledge?  \nThis epistemic question branches into myriad inquiries about specific knowledge values enhanced or impeded by AI—for example, truth, accuracy, or transparency. Related are qualities that overlap with, but are not strictly bound to, knowledge, including ethics and creativity. Creativity will be my case study here. Ultimately, questions about AI and good knowledge extend to social, political, and economic issues bearing on the fact that AI is a late chapter in our contemporary era of “knowledge work”(the subject of my book, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture ofInformation). Questions that arise in this context include, who will be rewarded and held accountable for using AI to work with knowledge? And which organizational, governmental, and other institutions will do the rewarding and accounting?  \nTime will be needed for answers to these questions to emerge and, of more consequence, to become norms. After all, every new knowledge technology—inseparable in the last instance from media, information, and communication technologies (writing, print, TV, the Internet, and others)—debuted to the same normless mix of hype and skepticism that greeted ChatGPT. We remember that Socrates, the oral philosopher, dismissed writing on epistemic grounds. In the Phaedrus, Plato’s Socrates tells of the god Theuth who demoed for the Egyptian king his new invention, writing: “This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific [pharmakon] both for the memory and for the wit.” The king responded:  \nO most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions…. [F]or this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality (Plato) .  \nHow easy it would be today to echo: O ChatGPT! You give learners not truth, but only the semblance oftruth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will have the show of wisdom without the reality. 1  \n1 Cf., Dan Rockmore’s use of the same passage from Plato to discuss large language models.  \nCenturies had to pass in early-literate societies, as Michael Clanchy shows in From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307, before practices, institutions, and laws could be laid down to allow people to trust writing. 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