The Humanistic Case for AI Optimism

Eamon Duede is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, and in the Department of Philosophy's Embedded Ethics Program. His theoretical work focuses on the epistemology of emerging technologies, principally artificial intelligence. His empirical work uses computational approaches to investigate the roles that methods and institutions play in scientific discovery. He is also developing a number of papers concerned with generative AI and collective creativity, discovery, and knowledge.

Richard Jean So is associate professor of English and digital humanities at McGill University. He researches contemporary culture and media using data-driven and computational methods. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (2021), and he is currently completing Fast Culture, Slow Justice: Storytelling and Social Movements in the Digital Age. He is also at work on several papers focused on generative AI, creativity, and cultural production.