AI Humanities Lab

Harvard FAS

This course explores the impact of AI on the humanities and seeks to articulate a humanities-based perspective on AI. This double mission includes discussions of how AI uses text corpora; how it imitates existing genres and styles; and larger questions of creativity and authorship. We’ll also look at the history of dialogue in order to understand our interactions with AI though conversational interfaces or chats. This attention to dialogue will include source texts such as the Socratic…