At the inaugural AI Summit at Harvard University on October 21, The American Academy for Arts and Sciences. an optimistic tone prevailed. In the words of Arvind Jain, cofounder and CEO of Glean, an AI-powered enterprise search platform recently valued at $7.2 billion: “In the U.S., it doesn’t matter what your background is. You’re gonna work hard, you’re gonna have the opportunities […] every problem, if there’s a problem, you should go and solve it.” Thanks to Xiao-Li Meng, director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, the focus on technology and business paused to consider “Humanities and Al” in a panel with Dean Sean Kelly, Stephanie Dick and Doris Sommer. The issues considered included a historical concern about human ungovernability and contemporary questions about the continuing exercise of human faculties such as judgment and imagination.. inaugural Al Summit on October 21.
