Ibrahim Halil Demirel is an academic at Batman University in Türkiye, working in hydraulics, hydrology, water resources and hydroelectric power. His research focuses on water systems, modelling and the interpretation of environmental data. Alongside his technical work, he writes about the relationships between technology, infrastructure, the environment and human judgement.
About Ibrahim Halil Demirel
Ibrahim Halil Demirel is an academic at Batman University in Türkiye, working in hydraulics, hydrology, water resources and hydroelectric power. His research focuses on water systems, modelling and the interpretation of environmental data. Alongside his technical work, he writes about the relationships between technology, infrastructure, the environment and human judgement.
Articles with Ibrahim Halil Demirel
Why AI Makes Us Anxious About Our Own Thoughts
This essay argues that generative AI does not destroy originality but exposes the weakness of the idea that thought can be pure, untouched and entirely self-generated. Drawing on the author’s experience as a hydrologist, it compares AI-assisted writing with scientific modelling: both tools produce outputs that require human judgement, interpretation and accountability. The essay proposes that authorship should be understood not as freedom from influence, but as the responsible transformation of inherited material. Originality, on this view, begins after influence rather than before it.