Virtual Community Conversations: "Is Artificial Intelligence the End of the Humanities?"
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Join us for a virtual facilitated dialogue, “Is Artificial Intelligence the End of the Humanities?" on Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 6:30pm to 8pm MST, with Rebekah Cummings (Digital Matters Director, U of U Marriott Library) and Dr. Elizabeth Callaway (Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah).
Our facilitated Community Conversations are not debates or town halls, but rather active discussions in which everyone on the call will have the opportunity to share. With thoughtful questions and gentle direction, our intention is to allow for people from varied backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences to contribute to a collective effort to listen more, practice empathy, and, as Utah Governor Spencer Cox says, "disagree better."
Please come prepared to contribute to the conversation and be on video. In order to protect the confidentiality of participants, we do not record these calls or admit passive/anonymous listeners to attend without being visible. Participants will not be admitted more than ten minutes into the call.
*If you are a member of the press, please contact us beforehand for parameters on whether you can attend.
“Is Artificial Intelligence the end of the Humanities?”
Thursday, October 30, 2025
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88183805342
Rebekah Cummings is the Director of Digital Matters at the University of Utah Marriott Library and Co-Director of the 2025 Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence. In addition to her work in digital humanities, Rebekah is a former Utah Library Association President, co-founder of Let Utah Read, and was the first librarian to run for Lt. Governor on a major party ticket in the United States.
Elizabeth Callaway is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah where she works at the intersections of digital humanities, environmental humanities, and contemporary literature. Her current book project, The Black Box and the Blue Marble examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and the natural environment in science fiction. She was a selected participant in the National Humanities Center’s Program in Responsible AI for which she has developed three courses for the University of Utah that look at AI from the perspective of the humanities.
Our facilitated Community Conversations are not debates or town halls, but rather active discussions in which everyone on the call will have the opportunity to share. With thoughtful questions and gentle direction, our intention is to allow for people from varied backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences to contribute to a collective effort to listen more, practice empathy, and, as Utah Governor Spencer Cox says, "disagree better."
Please come prepared to contribute to the conversation and be on video. In order to protect the confidentiality of participants, we do not record these calls or admit passive/anonymous listeners to attend without being visible. Participants will not be admitted more than ten minutes into the call.
*If you are a member of the press, please contact us beforehand for parameters on whether you can attend.
“Is Artificial Intelligence the end of the Humanities?”
Thursday, October 30, 2025
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88183805342
Rebekah Cummings is the Director of Digital Matters at the University of Utah Marriott Library and Co-Director of the 2025 Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence. In addition to her work in digital humanities, Rebekah is a former Utah Library Association President, co-founder of Let Utah Read, and was the first librarian to run for Lt. Governor on a major party ticket in the United States.
Elizabeth Callaway is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah where she works at the intersections of digital humanities, environmental humanities, and contemporary literature. Her current book project, The Black Box and the Blue Marble examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and the natural environment in science fiction. She was a selected participant in the National Humanities Center’s Program in Responsible AI for which she has developed three courses for the University of Utah that look at AI from the perspective of the humanities.
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