AI-Rewritten Academic Practices: The Future Direction of Anthropological Research

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technology, the modes of production, social interactions, and knowledge systems in human society are undergoing profound transformations. AI is not only changing the way humans work and live but is also posing new challenges to the research paradigms of the social sciences, particularly anthropology. As a discipline centered on ethnographic fieldwork, anthropology is expanding its focus from studying "humans" to studying "human–AI relations" in order to understand the reproduction of culture and society under technological intervention. Looking ahead, AI technology is also driving anthropology to evolve from a "scholarship of observation" toward a "scholarship of human–AI interaction," prompting scholars to reshape the discipline’s understanding of humanity and culture at the intersection of technological rationality and humanistic reflection.