Cultures of AI

Description from DukeHub

Cultures of AI explores technology from a humanities perspective. The humanities perspective focuses on how technology impacts human life, culture, and society and, reciprocally, how human life, culture, and society shape technology. Drawing on methods from critical theory, continental philosophy, political theory, feminist theory, Black studies, media theory, social theory, the philosophy of technology, and historical analysis, the course situates contemporary AI within longer histories of technological change, colonialism, capitalism, race, gender, and labor.

Skills

• ai and machine learningtitle: "ai"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• ✓Yes: A craft you practice with your hands or body · "drawing"
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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