A What is “New”? Evaluating Generative AI Across Disciplines event

Date: 2025-11-21 (Fri)
Time: 10:30 AM -12:00 NOON
Mode of event: Online (Zoom link will be provided upon request)

Registration: https://cuhk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VuJp3uxVSyC4UQxNihUVFg#/registration

Speaker: Dr. Nina Beguš (UC Berkeley)
Moderator: Prof. Xuenan Cao (CRS, CUHK)

About the talk:
This talk introduces artificial humanities, an interdisciplinary framework for exploring the cultural, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of AI. It considers the role of fictional narratives in shaping technology, from Pygmalion’s Eliza Doolittle to Weizenbaum’s ELIZA. Powers’s Galatea2.2, films like Her and Ex Machina, and today’s large language models. The lecture concludes with humanistic approaches to AI and the cultural implications of machines using human languages.

About the speaker: 
Nina Beguš is a researcher at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. She leads the Artificial Humanities Group, focusing on science and technology studies, philosophy of science, and narratology. Author of Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI (2025)

Co-organized by the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Centre for Cultural Studies, and the Research Institute for the Humanities, the Chinese University of Hong Kong