Artificial Intelligence Humanities as a Subject within General Education

This paper aims to explore how AI humanities education, as a component of liberal arts education, can be achieved by analyzing the operation of a humanities course on the topic of AI. To this end, this paper first proposes the goals of AI humanities education, specifically, teaching AI from a humanities perspective. Considering that AI is no longer merely a tool that serves humans, AI humanities education should be treated as an important subject within liberal arts education. This study argues that the core of AI humanities education is to cultivate the ability to critically contemplate AI. Next, this paper examines the educational goals and outcomes of a course titled ‘Big Data, AI, and Art.’ Under the banner of humanistic problem-based learning, the course was designed to pose philosophical questions about the relationship between AI and art, allowing learners to actively construct the best answers to those questions while using generative AI. By critically analyzing this course, this study aims to contribute to the discussion on the direction of AI humanities education.