The Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI (NNAI)
Rethinking thinking: The Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative and AI (NNAI) is a multi-year research generation initiative focused on the intersections of human and other-than-human thinking. It aims to bring a humanities-driven lens to hot-button questions in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, animal cognition and other forms of thinking, now and in the past.
At NNAI Livescu we engage with a broad community of academic scholars, students, policy makers and industry professionals to promote multidisciplinary conversations and research into fundamental questions about thinking.
Check out our current main areas of inquiry [Core Projects], upcoming events and our engagement with students.
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You might notice a lamb-theme on this website, here is how our director (Christopher Kelty) explained this mystery in our opening event in November 2023
Want to Collaborate?
If you’re interested in collaborating with us, please reach Marcos Arranz or Christopher Kelty to discuss your ideas and how we can support each other in our endeavors.
NNAI LIVESCU Events & Collaborations
As part of our program we organize engaging events around the core ideas of the initiative for a broad audience of scholars, students and professionals.
Psychological Warfare, Psychiatric Violence, and the Prison Industrial Complex
We organized with Dr. Danielle Carr (UCLA) a workshop on Psychological Warfare, Psychiatric Violence, and the Prison Industrial Complex, as part of her research project: Material Intelligence as Historical Problem.
Empire of AI: A conversation with Karen Hao
Award-winning AI reporter Karen Hao, author of the bestselling book Empire of AI, in an in-depth conversation on power, politics, and the future, with leaders in tech justice and policy, UCLA Professors Safiya U. Noble and Julia Powles at the Herb Alpert School of Music, Lani Hall, UCLA.
MODEL STUDENT
Model Student is a collaborative project with students to construct a discussion aimed at understanding how students have been incorporating Artificial Intelligence (particularly Large Language Models) into their education.