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AI and the Future of the Humanities: A Conversation with Ayad Akhtar, Daniel Kehlmann, and Meghan O’Rourke
Wednesday, April 8
4:30–6:00 p.m.
HQ L02, 320 York Street
AI is advancing faster than many predicted, and some leading researchers believe artificial general intelligence may arrive within the next few years. We’ve barely begun to reckon with the implications for art, for language, for consciousness itself.
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, bestselling novelist Daniel Kehlmann, and New York Times bestselling author and executive editor of The Yale Review Meghan O'Rourke have all been grappling with AI in their work. Join them for a conversation about what large language models reveal about how we think, write, and create—and what this technology may mean for the future of the humanities. Moderated by James Surowiecki, columnist for The Atlantic and senior editor at The Yale Review.
Free and open to the public. Presented by The Yale Review. Sponsored by the Selby-Vail Fund for Innovation in the Humanities.