**Announcement: The AIH Lab’s first research paper has been published in the Harvard Data Science Review! You can read the paper here.**
About
The AI Humanities Lab is a new interdisciplinary research group at Wash U at the intersection of the humanities and data science. Our research is bidirectional–we 1) apply AI and computational methods to humanities research (including literary studies, media studies, history and film) and 2) investigate AI models in regards to their historical development, ideological biases, and impact on culture and the creative arts.
Our current focus is a project that uses computational stylometry to evaluate how GPT mimics the literary style of nineteenth-century authors. “‘Written in the Style of’: ChatGPT and the Literary Canon” has been supported by the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences.
The Lab is led by Gabi Kirilloff, Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities, and Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences. Current graduate and undergraduate research assistants in the lab come from disciplines including computer science, data science, comparative literature and thought, communications design, film and media studies, applied mathetmatics, business, art history and linguistics. To learn more about out current student researchers, visit the People page.
Get Involved
If you are interested in working in the lab, we recommend first taking a class in the digital humanities with either Prof. Kirilloff or Dr. Carroll. Current course offerings are updated each semester on our Teaching page. If you already have skills in NLP, data science or programming in a field relevant to our work, please feel free to reach out to us directly!
Questions and inquiries about the Lab should be directed to Prof. Kirilloff (kirilloff@wustl.edu) or Dr. Carroll (claudiac@wustl.edu).