Presentation: Becoming Cyborg Writers: A Future for Humanists in an AI Inf(l)ected World

Screenshot of the first slide, with the title "Becoming Cyborg Writers: A Future for Humanists in an AI Inf(l)ected World" and an AI generated image of a cartoony Cyborg version of Leonardo Flores.

Earlier today, I participated in the MLA 2024 MAPS Leadership Institute (link to program) in a plenary panel titled “Before the Robots Take Over: Envisioning a Future with and for the Humanities.”

Here’s a link to my presentation, titled “Becoming Cyborg Writers: A Future for Humanists in an AI Inf(l)ected World,” in which I chart a path for the Humanities in a world that will be affected by AI technologies in ways we can and cannot imagine.

 

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.