About the hub
The debate on artificial intelligence’s future is unfolding now, with technologies like ChatGPT and Midjourney at the forefront of public discourse.
The questions raised by current developments of AI are not limited to technology or design. They span across media, policy-making, education, economics, and philosophical debates on human existence and future societies.
HumAIn is a hub for interdisciplinary research and education. We focus on how the humanities can critically and creatively engage with the ideas, stories, and imaginaries of AI.
The narratives surrounding AI encapsulate a mix of hope, fear, and speculation. HumAIn will analyse, critique, and reimagine artificial intelligence (AI) narratives for a just and sustainable future.
Objectives
The hub will employ speculative and inventive methods alongside well-established methods of textual and visual analysis, qualitative fieldwork, and participatory inquiry. This way we will explore the stories surrounding and embedded within AI and create new stories about and with AI.
We will also treat AI as a novel creative and methodological lens for analyzing the world, to open new avenues for engaging and creating AI imaginaries.
The governing research questions of the HumAIn hub is:
- What material presumptions and cultural imaginaries are invested in the stories surrounding and embedded within AI?
- How can the humanities be mobilized to engage and reimagine AI in new and creative ways?
Financing
Faculty of Humanities, strategic initiatives 2024-2028.
