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Should Scholars Read with AI? Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Text and AI in the Humanities
November 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
FREE
Join us for a roundtable on the use and ethics of AI for analyzing text in the humanities. The interdisciplinary panel includes Dr. Stephen Davis (University of Kentucky), Dr. Patricia Murrieta-Flores (Lancaster University, UK), and Dr. Todd Presner (University of California Los Angeles).
Should scholars read with AI? Amid the transformation that chatbots and other products of large language models are bringing to the classroom, they also have the potential to upend how scholars engage with research. This panel brings together humanities scholars from different fields and regions who have all come to use AI tools in their work and are grappling with the ethics of using, and not using, these new methods. Light refreshments will be served.
Stephen Davis is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He is co-PI of the project Bitter Aloe, which uses AI tools to analyze South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Patricia Murrieta-Flores is Professor and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Centre, Lancaster University (UK). Murrieta-Flores is the director of the AI projects Digging into Early Colonial Mexico and Unlocking the Colonial Archive, both funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Todd Presner is Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLA. He is the head of the Holocaust Research Lab (https://holocaustresearchlab.com/) and the author of Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (Princeton University Press, 2024)
