Artificial Historians

This book offers readers an introduction to the world of artificial histories and historians. It looks behind the interfaces of AI and explores everyday platforms and prize-winning history books to identify how people and algorithms make histories, and how they might make histories in the future.

Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Distinguished Professor of History at Adelaide University, Australia. She is the author of many historiography texts, including Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2014), History Goes to the Movies (2007), Big and Little Histories (with Anne Martin, 2022), and History From Loss (with Daniel Woolf, 2023).
Anne Martin is Director of the Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre at the Australian National University, Australia. She is co-author of Big and Little Histories (2022, with Marnie Hughes-Warrington) and is an Aboriginal rights activist and educator who is dedicated to changing the future for our next generation of leaders.
Lewis Yarlupurka O'Brien is Senior Elder, educator, adviser of the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, Australia, and is recognised as a leader of reconciliation. He is a writer and speaker of the Kaurna language and has played a critical role in its recognition and growth. He is the author of And the Clock Struck Thirteen (2007), a memoir as told to Mary-Anne Gale.