The Milstein Program is pleased to welcome Andrew Piper (Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University) as the inaugural Milstein Visiting Scholar for Spring 2025. As part of his semester at Cornell, Piper will offer a brand new interdisciplinary course titled AI & Storytelling.
The course explores what artificial intelligence (AI) can teach us about human storytelling. Students will tackle this question through a two-pronged approach: story understanding and story generation.
In the first part, students will delve into how AI and machine learning technologies have revolutionized our approach to analyzing narratives, allowing us to examine storytelling's social impacts and collective dynamics at large scale, rather than focusing narrowly on individual texts. Students will study computational methods and concepts for modeling stories, moving beyond traditional analyses to a broader understanding of storytelling's societal effects.
Students interested in taking the course will need to complete a brief application by the November 1 deadline. The course will be capped at 60 total students.
Full course details:
STS 3940 AI and Storytelling
(Co-meets with INFO 4940 Special Topics in Information Science, topic: AI and Storytelling - Lec 009)
3 credits. Offered Spring 2025.
Instructor: Andrew Piper (McGill University, Milstein Program Visiting Scholar)
Interested students must apply.
Piper's appointment is jointly supported by the department of Information Science at Bowers CIS and the College of Arts & Sciences via the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
For questions about STS 3940 AI and Storytelling, please contact milsteinprogram@cornell.edu.
