AI & Culture. 3 credits

Catalog description

Explores the cultural, socioeconomic, aesthetic, and political dimensions of artificial intelligence. Examines how AI tools and technologies reshape labor, identity, power, expression, and social life. Topics may include algorithmic bias, digital labor, surveillance, colonialism, disinformation, environmental harm, and how AI systems reflect—and reinforce—existing social inequalities. Through readings, writing, and hands-on experiments with AI platforms, students learn to interrogate the narratives, ideologies, and infrastructures that shape artificial intelligence in the 21st century. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages . Limited to three attempts.