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Dear English Department students, Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-2025 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as Chair of the English Department. I return for my second year leading the department, rejoining an amazing group of…
A Reading by Edward Hirsch: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
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I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities
Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as:
What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical?

