An AILA x i2i Venture Accelerator Event | October 30, 2025 By: Caitlin Kennedy Downey & Jiaqi Huang, AILA Staff Students, faculty, and staff gathered for a lively discussion hosted by the AI in the Liberal Arts Initiative (AILA) and i2i: Idea to Innovation on how AI-driven search tools are reshaping research, learning, and creativity….
AILA hopes you are staying warm! 🙂 Upcoming Events Sign up for the Sustainability Hackathon!! By AI in the Liberal Arts, Sustainability at Amherst, and Ideas 2 Innovation 📅 November 15-16th (Saturday – Sunday) Application Is Open!! As achieving sustainability becomes the primary goal of our generation, this year’s Hack the Herd invites teams to…
Boba will be provided! Join us for an engaging exploration of how AI is transforming the way we search for information! The AI in the Liberal Arts initiative at Amherst College invites you to a peer-led discussion on AI-powered search technologies. Student leaders from i2i, Liam Davis and Ryan Ji, will guide an interactive conversation exploring…
Hack the Herd: Sustainability Hackathon — November 15th & 16th As achieving sustainability becomes the primary goal of our generation, this year’s Hack the Herd invites teams to harness AI-driven solutions to campus sustainability challenges. Over the span of 24 hrs, you and your friends will build and pitch a project that tackles the complex…
How a Liberal Arts education inspired bold innovation! Join AILA in welcoming Amherst alumnus Ahmed Aly, founder of Vship, for a conversation on how a Liberal Arts education inspired bold innovation in the age of artificial intelligence. Ahmed will share his journey from studying political science and computer science at Amherst to building AI systems that empower…
Join us for a movie screening this Thursday, October 23rd @ 8pm in the Keefe Theater. The AI Film Club brings the Amherst community together for screenings of movies that explore artificial intelligence and machine learning. We show a range of films from speculative science fiction to documentaries about real-world innovations. Each screening is followed…
The AI Film Club is hosting it’s first Family Movie Screening THIS Sunday, October 26th @ 1 pm in Keefe Theater. Bring your kiddos for robot crafts and activities! Treats and juice boxes! And coffee for the grown ups, of course. Hosted by AILA and the Jones Library. Email: aila@amherst.edu with questions. This is a…
CHI Think Tank, Lyceum 101 Matteo Pasquinelli discusses his book, The Eye of the Master (Verso Books, 2023). About the book: A “social” history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest “to solve intelligence” –…
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the sustainability landscape — from streamlining ESG reporting to uncovering hidden risks and scaling real impact. Join us for AI in Action: Practical Tools for Corporate Sustainability Impact to discover how AI can be applied ethically and effectively to advance your organization’s goals. Featuring Dr. Panos Panagiotakopoulos, a leading voice at the intersection…
AILA hopes you had a beautiful fall break 🙂 upcoming events Alumni Speaker Series – Will Fishell! Will Fishell ‘22 Graduate Research Fellow at Oakridge National Labs 📅 October 20th (Monday) | Chi Think Tank, Amherst College Lyceum Sustainability Hackathon!! By AI in the Liberal Arts, Sustainability at Amherst, and Ideas 2 Innovation 📅 November…