Human experience in the digital age
Research in this area will explore what is gained and lost in the human experience as we find ourselves inundated with new technologies. Examples include inequities due to lack of rural broadband, loss of privacy due to facial recognition technologies, misinformation on social media, opportunities to capture marginalized voices, and more.
Select KU research in this area
New guide helps educators build critical AI literacy
The article offers a guide for educators to help students and fellow teachers develop critical AI literacy and appears in a special issue of Thresholds in Education devoted to the topic.
KU scholars outline ‘death and rebirth of research in education in the age of AI’
Three KU education researchers address the biggest challenges facing their field and why now is a good time to consider not only the possibilities that artificial intelligence presents, but how and why the next generation of researchers can produce scholarship.
Study prompts new theory of human-machine communication
In a new scholarly paper, two University of Kansas scholars propose a novel theory of communication analysis that takes into better account how people interact with ubiquitous technology in the 21st-century workplace.
AI can imitate morality without actually possessing it, new philosophy study finds
“Ethics gives context to the things we want AI systems to do,” said Oluwaseun Damilola Sanwoolu, doctoral candidate in philosophy. “Maybe we don’t have consensus on what the one correct ethical theory is, but I think this framework can actually work for AI alignment.”
KU's strengths in this area
- Achievement & Assessment Institute
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Hall Center for the Humanities
- Institute for Policy & Social Research
- Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
- Institute for Information Sciences
- KU Libraries
- School of Architecture & Design
- School of Business
- School of Education & Human Sciences
- School of Journalism