Building a Character: AI Humanities Lab

Harvard FAS

The goal of this course is to use AI agents in a theatrical context. Its core assumption, which we will test throughout the semester, is that creating an AI agent is like creating a dramatic character: both are artificial entities with which audiences interact. We’ll first explore this similarity historically and conceptually, through acting theories, movement systems, and dramatic texts from the first machine age, a period in the early 20th century when theater sought to catch up with the…