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Courtney Handman | AI and the Race for Interspecies Communication

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Advanced Study (CAS)
Location
Levis Faculty Center, Rm 208
Date
Nov 13, 2025   12:00 - 1:30 pm  
Contact
Masumi Iriye
E-Mail
iriye@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

In this new research project, Prof. Handman (Anthropology, UT Austin) explores the different ways that AI is transforming our ideas about language and humanness by seeing how people are imagining some kind of AI-enabled interspecies communication. One of the current challenges of the project is how to describe this world of interspecies communication in a way that pays close attention to the diverse forms of participation in it.

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