DeWitt Wallace Course
AI Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Culture
LIT 524S, VMS 524S, JAM 524S
This course engages with theories of aesthetics and ethics to examine how artificial intelligence models in contemporary planetary culture mediate and entangle the sensible and the ethical. From the generation of text, sound, and images to the production of literary genres, musical forms, and visual styles, the rapid diffusion of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has exceeded the revolutionary transformation brought about by the Internet in the 1990s. As Large Language Models and other generative systems increasingly function as culture machines, they transform digital processes into structural articulations of meaning, value, and relation. In this context, it becomes urgent to ask what has happened to the relation between sensibility and ethical life today.
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