AI at Carleton Blog

Carleton’s Writing Center has been learning about generative AI to guide students through the writing process – mostly without the use of generative AI.

Highlights from talk with Sara Hooker, Carleton alum ’13 and Vice President of Research at Cohere, who Time Magazine named one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI. 

Melissa Scott, the Robert A. Oden, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Music, John Hurtubise, ’26, and Henry Burkhart, ’26, two Computer Science majors, discuss the challenges of working with non-Western musical traditions and generative AI.

Sarah Calhoun, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship, and Sean Leahy, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences and Data, discuss research, reading, and what role generative AI may play in libraries.

Highlights from talk with Jay McKinney, Visiting Assistant Professor and newly hired Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, shares their perspective on how generative AI “thinks,” the likelihood that this technology will lead to a singularity and the coolness of giant robots.

The Zoom AI Companion allows for easy meeting summaries and in-meeting queries of the meeting transcript.

Sam Thayer, Office of Accessibility Resources, talks about the need for reliable AI when supporting students with disabilities.

Quoc Nguyen ’23 compares thinking about generative AI as an undergraduate with using generative AI as a graduate student.

The Gould Library offers an AI feature through its popular database JSTOR.

How does one teach computational literature using generative AI?