Join the AI Book Club for a discussion of our Winter Break reading selection; God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O’Gieblyn. The AI Book Club meets monthly on Sunday afternoons at Amherst College to explore nonfiction (and the occasional fiction) on AI. Discussions, led by AILA staff, students and guest…
AI in the Liberal Arts (AILA) is thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of What AI Means, a new podcast hosted by Amherst College Professor Lee Spector. We’ve been working hard to create this series, which explores artificial intelligence through the lens of the liberal arts. What AI Means is the podcast that asks scholars…
December’s selection is “Seventy-Two Letters,” a novella by Ted Chiang, from the collection Stories of Your Life and Others. This story is set in an alternate history, Victorian-era England where people can animate automata called golems by speaking names into objects. It explores the intersection of religion, science, and alternative history, particularly the idea of creating artificial life…
Date: December 4, 2025Time: 5:00 PMLocation: CHI Think Tank in the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank Lyceum Join us for an exciting Alumni Speaker Series event featuring Daniel Flores Garcia ’24, who will present: Musicking with Generative Models As generative AI tools for music become increasingly capable, autonomous, and accessible, how can artists work with…
By: By Brooke Ingemi Featured in: The Amherst STEM Network Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a part of everyday life, transforming how we learn, think, and communicate, while also raising deep questions about what the future will look like. Previously confined to computer science labs, AI now touches nearly every field, from art and law…
Join the Amherst College AI in Liberal Arts (AILA) initiative and the AI Safety Club for a lively student panel on the role of AI on campus and beyond. Moderated by Douglas Hall, Research Computing Specialist from Academic Technology, the conversation will explore how students are engaging with AI, what responsible AI looks like at…