Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity

The Initiative

Welcome to the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity at Bowdoin College. Guided by our commitment to the common good, we aim to empower students and faculty to critically examine, thoughtfully utilize, and ethically shape AI. We prepare our community to engage responsibly with AI’s possibilities and challenges through faculty teaching and research support, student research opportunities, and campus events.

Student Research

Faculty and Staff Research

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  Asking Questions; Questioning Answers

  Continuing our series of stories looking at artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI and how it’s taught across the curriculum, we’re going to focus on how one philosophy class approaches the issue.
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  Leading AI Researcher Outlines Challenges of Digital Mental Health

  As part of the Hastings Initiative, an acclaimed scholar of computational and social science visits campus to talk about AI and mental health. Georgia Tech’s Munmun De Choudhury asks if a system without lived experience can be a source of care.
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  The Art of Real Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  In a series of stories over the next few months, we’ll be visiting courses in economics, English, philosophy, computer studies, and digital and computational studies that approach AI not as a tool to learn, but as a subject for inquiry.

 

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