Teresa Heffernan

Trusting AI? Melissa Gismondi in Conversation with Teresa Heffernan

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Setting the scene for a provocative interview with Teresa Heffernan, Melissa Gismondi, host of the Jackman Humanities Institute podcast series, opens by instructing ChatGPT to: “Write me a brief description of a podcast featuring humanities and literature scholars discussing the perils of AI.” With her keyboard clicking in the background, this award-winning writer and audio […]

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“Intelligence” in the Absence of Life Workshop (April 2024)

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UPDATE (March 22): Go here to read an interview with Teresa Heffernan about this workshop on April 9, 2024. With aspects of human, social life like intelligence and ethical responsibility so often now attributed to the machinic artifacts of the AI industry, the (seeming) absence of living human beings from the scene of technology warrants

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Upcoming Lecture: The Mothers of AI?

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While the field of AI is full of “fathers”, “mothers” are noticeably absent. One of the only contenders is the nineteenth-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, who recognized that Babbage’s Analytical Engine, an early model of the computer, could not only crunch numbers but could also manipulate, according to rules, other symbols (for instance, musical notes or

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