The Hop: Art, Ethics & AI
Thu, Oct 29
|Loew Auditorium
a conversation with Nona Hendryx, DJ Spooky and Jacqueline Wernimont (Digital Humanities and Social Engagement), moderated by Roopika Risam (Film & Media Studies)
Time & Location
Oct 29, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Loew Auditorium, 4 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
About the event
What are the ethical implications of using AI as an artist's tool?
This interactive session will feature the work of three artist-scholars, introducing their work and probing the intersections of humans, machines, data, and ethical concerns.
About AI at 70: What Must Remain Human?
In 1956, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project launched the field of artificial intelligence. It was here in Hanover that the term was coined and the foundational question was asked: can machines solve problems once reserved for human minds? Seventy years later, Dartmouth will convene an anniversary conference to continue the conversation—this time focused not on what AI can do, but on what humans must do in its presence.
The original meeting asked how machines could think. This one asks a different set of questions: Where does AI genuinely improve human decision-making? And where must judgment remain human?
From October 29–31, that inquiry will draw leaders from…