Rhodes Chair in Digital Humanities Associate Professor of English, Duke University
The Cultural AI Lab studies what happens when machines become participants in culture — making it, consuming it, judging it, and increasingly judging us. Undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities, computer science, and data science work together to study the impact of generative AI on cultural production and consumption, and how we might better redesign these systems for humans. We combine large-scale computational analysis with experiments and surveys, and we read closely.
We are currently working on three topics: AI slop, improving AI systems for human creativity, and the downstream effects of LLMs on digital platforms.
The lab has been generously funded by Schmidt Sciences, through the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute, and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
More at the Cultural AI Lab site, including current projects and the students working on them. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in this work are welcome to get in touch.