Developing interdisciplinary, human centered approaches to AI scholarship, curricula and entrepreneurship.

OVERVIEW

The Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Colby is the first cross-disciplinary institute for artificial intelligence (AI) at a liberal arts college. The Institute facilitates interdisciplinary, human-centered scholarship using rich datasets with real-world consequences and prepares students for a future where AI is transforming industries, careers, and modes of discovery, creativity, and scholarship. AI shapes all our lives; we should all be informed, critical AI tool users and tool builders.

STORIES

-Positions at DAVIS AI-

The Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Colby College invites applications for several open positions. Successful candidates for these positions will have the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary AI work in a highly collaborative environment, and to shape the future of AI education within the liberal arts context.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application Specialist

Postdoctoral Associate

Research and Teaching Scientist

-MULECHAT-

Let’s Talk about Artificial Intelligence

At the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, conversations about the consequential technology abound

-AI and teaching-

Learning From a Simulated World

Michael Yankoski, a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, wants to use AI to help solve complex human problems

-Getting a Head Start on AI-

The SureStart Model

The Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship host SureStart, a summer program that teaches real-world skills to students interested in AI.

OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

MuleChat

Spring Semester | Olin 142

An interactive portal, providing access to several large AI language models. Faculty, staff and students are invited to register for a time slot for training and tutorials on these models. Interested in using it for research, to use as part of your class?

Drop-in hours will be available for the spring semester.

Who or What Cares? Interdependence in the Age of AI

February 17, 2025 | 12:00 PM

Roberts 034 Private Dining Room

Join us for a lunch & learn lecture by visiting doctor and educator Omowumi Ogunyemi titled: Who or What Cares? Interdependence in the Age of AI.

Grab your lunch in Bob’s on Davis AI and join us in the Private Dining Room 034 for a talk that explores the role of AI tools within patient-doctor relationship, keeping in mind human interdependence within their unique cultural context.

Space is limited so please REGISTER TODAY!

Journal of Writing with or about AI

Second edition - call for submission

DavisAI and our partners are inviting submissions for the second issue of Journal of Writing with and about AI (JWAI). JWAI is an annual online journal published by the Davis Institute of Artificial Intelligence highlighting works by people from Colby.

You’ll find our guidelines and formatting details for submissions here.

Please send your submissions using this form by March 15th!

There’s no time like the present to shape the future.