[AI Summary]: Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities launches “Modeling Culture,” a year-long project exploring AI as a new mode of humanistic inquiry. The initiative includes a faculty/graduate seminar, public lecture series, and open-access curriculum development, focusing on how humanists can shape AI development rather than simply respond to it. Funded by AI Lab Seed grant with support from the Humanities Council and Princeton Humanities Initiative.
Program Components
- Monthly Seminar: Eight sessions exploring humanistic engagement with generative AI
- Public Lecture Series: Six talks on cultural analytics and AI
- Open-Access Curriculum: To be developed and shared widely
Fall 2025 Schedule
- Sept 29: John Ladd - “AI and LLMs as Tools for the Humanities”
- Oct 27: Martin, Jones, Janco - “Meaning in a Void: Exploring Latent Spaces”
- Nov 17: Preus & Walsh - “Can LLMs Read and Write Poetry?”
- Dec 1: Haverals, Roughan, Buzaaba - “Decisions, decisions, decisions”
Faculty Director: Meredith Martin
Funding: AI Lab Seed grant, Humanities Council, Princeton Humanities Initiative