Kyle Harper

So I think that's like one of the takeaways of the big evolutionary history of our pathogens.

Evolution is very weird, very contingent, very creative at exploiting whatever weakness we give it.

It's because there are

Billions and billions and billions of microbes in this room.

You know, I don't know how many tens to hundreds of millions of species of microbes are in this room.

Most of them are not even remotely pre-evolved to – pre-adapted to be pathogenic.

But like lots are and they're constantly – you know, they're constantly seeing if you manage to lock that door.

And they're just looking for a way to break in.

Yeah.

I mean, amazing.

But not yet.

Not yet.

Like completely displacing or like totally threatening the kind of work that a historian does.

But at this point, like I can't.

I can't even conceive of what a research project would look like without using AI.

I mean, it's just a constant.

Yeah, but, like, for, you know, for just, like, it's just, like, a constant conversation partner.

When you're doing research, when you're writing, you know, you can go back to that PDF and ask, like, you know, whatever, how many species are there in this texon?

Or you can just ask the AI.

And you still have to check it, but it's getting, obviously it's getting more and more reliable really, really quickly.