A growing list of ways to engage on AI-related topics, pursue funding for AI research, and more.
Opportunities
AI for Research & Writing Series
Thursdays, 7, 14, 21, 4-5:30pm ET
The Graduate Writing Lab at the Poorvu Center
Online
Using artificial intelligence for research and writing has emerged as a helpful skillset in any scholar’s toolkit. AI tools can find sources, read and summarize articles, write text and code, design projects, and identify impactful research questions. In this workshop series, participants will reflect on their own research to identify opportunities for AI to boost their productivity and impact. Through hands-on practice with AI tools adopted by Yale, participants will explore how AI can advance their projects at each stage of the writing process. Join us for:
- Intro to AI for Literature Reviews and Reading (11/7)
- Intro to AI for Writing (11/14)
- Advanced Prompt Engineering (11/21)
Intended audience: GSAS & professional school students
DISSC and ISPS present: AI Lightning Talk
Please join us for a fast paced lightning talk on how faculty use AI as part of their social science-related research. Lunch will be served and a Q&A will follow.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
11:30 AM – 1 PM
Yale School of Management
Hybrid, Room 4210
Lunch will be served. RSVP by 11/26/24.
Faculty and students interested in learning more about exploring ways to use AI as a tool in their research are encouraged to attend this hybrid lightning talk event, featuring presentations by:
- Kevin DeLuca, Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Balázs Kovács, Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Management
- Tom McCoy, Assistant Professor, Linguistics
- Jose-Antonio Espin Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Economics
- Emma Zang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Biostatistics (Secondary) and Global Affairs (Secondary)
This event is co-sponsored by the Data Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC) and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS).
AI Coffee Talks for Humans
This monthly series, hosted by the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, provides a casual space for faculty, graduate students, and staff to experiment with AI applications and explore their cultural and ethical implications.
Promptathon – Fall Finale to the AI Coffee Talks for Humans Series
Devon Barker from Educational Technology will lead a promptathon to celebrate our groundbreaking first semester of AI tools campus wide at Yale. A promptathon features techniques to get the most out of your AI collaborations.
Monday, December 9, 2024, 10am to 12pm
Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, CTL 120a
AI Workshop and Book Talk with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Please join the Data Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC), the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), and The Tobin Center for Economic Policy for two events featuring economist and author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz who will speak about his new book Who Makes the NBA?: Data Driven Answers to Basketball’s Biggest Questions, written in just 30 days using ChatGPT’s data analysis tools.
Both events take place on Friday, March 28, 2025
Book Talk
Have you ever wondered: What percent of 7-footers are in the NBA? Why have so many NBA players been named Chris? What players are undervalued in the draft? We will discuss the answers to these questions, plus a discussion of how AI can revolutionize data analysis, as Seth gives a deep dive on his book Who Makes the NBA?: Data-Driven Answers to Basketball’s Biggest Questions.
9-10 AM
The Tobin Center, 87 Trumbull Street
Hybrid, Room B120
Breakfast will be served. RSVP by 3/25/25
Copies of Who Makes the NBA? will be available for the first 20 in person attendees.
Workshop
Join a hands-on workshop on how to use Chat GPT as an aid for data analyses and a discussion about the usefulness of new AI tools in writing and research.
12-1 PM
28 Hillhouse
Hybrid, Room A106
Lunch will be served. RSVP by 3/25/25.
AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT
April 10-11, 2025
This conference, co-sponsored by Yale Divinity School, the Yale Digital Ethics Center, the Yale Humanities Division, and the Yale Department of Religious Studies. brings together theologians, ethicists and philosophers of religion to reflect on the profound ways in which AI is transforming our sense of selfhood and agency, our interpersonal relationships, and our societies. How is the Spirit at work in this new thing? And how can we ensure that digital technologies serve a more flourishing human and creaturely future?
The conference will feature three keynote talks, alongside three core panels addressing themes of Creation, Fall and Redemption, and Communion and Eschatological Consummation. There will also be a graduate student panel to launch the conference.