CLAAI : Center for Liberal Arts and AI

FAIN: RAI-301501-25

University of Richmond (Richmond, VA 23173-0001)
Lauren Tilton (Project Director: February 2024 to present)

Establishing a humanities research center at University of Richmond on the social, cultural, and legal dimensions of artificial intelligence, with a focus on visual AI. (36 months)

CLAAI will bring together researchers, students, and pedagogy experts working within small liberal arts colleges to study the social, cultural, and legal possibilities and challenges of AI. We will (1) develop collaborative research through Research Fellowships, (2) expand course offerings on the ethical issues that arise within AI and ways we can use AI to address pressing social issues through Course Transformation and Professional Development Grants, and (3) expand access to AI methods through in-person and digital workshops and talks, and (4) support knowledge sharing and creation within and beyond Richmond by building on UR’s strength in Visual AI. With UR as the central node, CLAAI will be a networked collaboration with the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), a consortium of 16 small liberal arts colleges in the southern United States including historically black colleges, religiously-affiliated institutions, and nonsectarian-private institutions from Texas to Virginia.