The AI Lab is the virtual digital humanities lab at Kenyon College. Students and faculty work side by side to explore new computational approaches and create innovative research projects.
Digital Humanities Research Fellows can apply to join our AI Lab after completing at least two digital humanities courses. The lab completed a competitive $60,000 IBM-Notre Dame Tech Ethics Lab grant, one of eleven awarded internationally, benchmarking AI decision-making in high-stakes juvenile recidivism contexts. Current research includes theory of mind in generative AI systems, hypersuasion methodologies, human-chatbot interaction analysis, and multi-agent frameworks for social applications.
The lead faculty researchers are Katherine Elkins, Jon Chun, Jesse Matz, Matthew Suazo and Kathleen Fernando.
Digital Humanities Research Fellows
Fellows work alongside faculty on the current AI Lab projects.
Students who have taken at least two digital humanities courses at Kenyon are invited to apply to become Digital Humanities Research Fellows. Contact Professor Kate Elkins at elkinsk@kenyon.edu for details. Kenyon alumni fellows include Olivia Frey and Miles Shebar.
AI Lab Talks
All AI Lab talks are open to the Kenyon community. Recent topics have included:
- Can AI (GPT-3) Pass a Writer’s Turing Test?
You may have seen the recent media hype surrounding the release of OpenAI’s GPT-3. Since 2019, students and faculty at Kenyon have been experimenting with its earlier version, GPT-2. - AI in the Writer's Room
A reprise of a workshop for OSU’s Humanities and Cognitive Science Summer Institute. This is hands-on and interactive. - AI Improv Theater
Learn about our AI experimental theater project and talk to our Divabot, coded/created by Jon Chun and based on the new transformer model of AI language generation. This talk is sponsored with a generous grant from Denison University. - The Shape of Stories
A sneak peak into the research behind our forthcoming book in the Cambridge Elements Digital Literary Studies series.
Katherine Elkins
