The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual studies, and undergraduate scholars from computer science, computational media, and creative writing.

This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Katie Shilton. More information coming soon.

Katie Shilton is a professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently visiting faculty in Computational Media at UCSC. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Law & Society (TRAILS) and a co-PI of the UMD Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA.