Structures of current anthropological knowledge: a comparison of biological and artificial intelligence

Abstract

The article examines the existence of paradigm structures in current anthropology. The author comments on the roles of disciplinary matrix and consensus for the development of anthropological disciplines. The assessments of the thematic domains of several anthropological subdisciplines obtained from DeepSeek (R1) and/or OpenAI DeepResearch are compared with the author’s assessments of the current state of these anthropological specializations. The article lists some shortcomings of AI platforms compared with specialists’ assessments.