Category: Social Sciences
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AI Ate My Homework: Big and Small Solutions for Educators Now
I began my teaching career in what was the worst academic job market until the present moment. I was unemployed for three years, fired (technically, I wasn’t renewed) from my first job for hosting a women’s day that administrators felt crossed a political line. I subsequently worked various part-time jobs (including at Fermi National Accelerator…
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“Artificial Ignorance” and Data Sycophancy
(Reposted and revised from “‘Artificial Ignorance’ and Data Sycophancy,” Feb 4, 2026) Artificial Ignorance A recent exhaustive study of AI use by computer programmers conducted by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin (“How AI Impacts Skill Formation”) shows that using AI may speed some aspects of your programming but, it, at the same time, “impairs…
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AI and the end of empathy
NHK recently did an amazing closer look on AI, that will only be available for the next few weeks, titled “Closer Than Friends or Family? — Turning to AI for Companionship” Described as the following: Today’s Close-Up The struggles of everyday life are driving more and more people to use AI chatbots to fill the…
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Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2025-2026 BKC Fellowship
Berkman Klein Center Call for Applications: 2025-2026 BKC Fellowship
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2024 Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, authors of Data Feminism (2020)
On May 20, 2024, HASTAC Scholars Abby Cole, Stella Fritzell, Hamida Khatri, and Parisa Setayesh met with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein to discuss their 2020 book, Data Feminism, which was also one of the subjects of the 2024 HASTAC Scholars collaborative book review project. The following is a corrected transcript of their conversation. Abby…
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HASTAC Scholars Spotlight: Rebecca Stuch
PhD student in Innovation in Global DevelopmentSchool for the Future Innovation in SocietyArizona State University Dissertation Research: Conceptualizing National Identity through Digital Storytelling with Moldovan youth. Why did you apply to HASTAC? I applied to HASTAC Scholars to participate in a community that supports interdisciplinary studies and the transformation of higher education as a way…
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Playing with AI – Creating images of Africa with Dall-E: Unsettling hegemonic geographical narratives
Around me, many discussions about AI and the classroom have been focused on the use of ChatGPT by students when writing their essays. I think I have graded a few final papers created through AI. I am saying I think because I don’t have a way to prove it yet, but every time, something felt…
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Review: Data Feminism
This volume by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein sets out to join the feminist belief in equality of the sexes with the practicality of activist work by laying out a way of working with data informed by the traditions and legacies of feminist activism and critical thought.
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Dialogues | The Community and the Smart City
a conversation between Coline Chevrin and Parisa Setayesh Welcome to Dialogues, a new initiative within the HASTAC Scholars program designed to cultivate vibrant dialogue, foster meaningful interaction, and promote the cross-fertilization of ideas among our young scholars. These Dialogues are a way of recording the exchanges that happen when scholars from different/or similar disciplines discuss…
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Launching our new blog posts series “Playing with AI.”
You might have noticed our new banner image on our HASTAC website. It looks great, and it was created by HASTAC Co-Director Parisa Setayesh, using AI. When she told me she had tried a few things with AI to develop a new illustration for our HASTAC Scholars Digital Fridays, I was very curious to see…