The University of Connecticut received a $137,974 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), with an award date of August 1, 2024. The goal of this 24-month project is to investigate how legacies of slavery and conceptions of human dignity are shaping the perception and reception of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) through popular culture. The key activities include research, production, and dissemination of six digitally accessible research conversations and two book chapters, with the expected outcome of bringing past and present understandings of slavery and servitude into the dialogue surrounding the ethical development of AI. This work aims to address how concepts of human freedom will be reshaped as AI becomes more prevalent in society.
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