Date: November 21, 2025 (Friday)
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM HKT
Venue: Zoom (online meeting)
Registration: https://cuhk.zoom.us/…/register/WN_VuJp3uxVSyC4UQxNihUVFg
How can the humanities—literature, history, and art—reshape the way we understand artificial intelligence?
In this talk, Dr. Nina Beguš will introduce artificial humanities, an interdisciplinary research framework that examines the cultural, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of AI.
The lecture will explore how fictional narratives have shaped our imagination of technology, tracing a lineage from Pygmalion’s Eliza Doolittle and Weizenbaum’s chatbot Eliza to Powers’s Galatea 2.2, films Her and Ex Machina, and today’s large language models.
The talk will conclude with reflections on how humanistic inquiry can address the critical questions raised by science and technology—especially the philosophical and cultural implications of machines using human languages.
Speaker:
· Dr. Nina Beguš (Researcher, UC Berkeley)
Affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, Dr. Beguš leads the Artificial Humanities Group, focusing on STS, philosophy of science, and narratology (Experimental Narratives). She is the author of Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI (2025).
Moderator:
• Prof. Xuenan Cao (CUHK)
The talk will be conducted in English.
For enquiries: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk