Many thanks to @stonybrooku.bsky.social and Roger Thompson for asking me to speak on aligning AI/language models with civic-deliberative values. I still don’t know what a Seawolf is, but at least I now know that it’s a thing.

Just returned from presenting at one of the most intellectually and socially stimulating conferences, on rhetoric and AI, hosted by the University of Tübingen’s RHET AI Center and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Amazing experience with great hosts and contributors.

About to land in Denver for a short talk and roundtable discussion on distant reading and language modeling. In which we’ll start peeking into the blackbox.

[Citations for graphs still to be added.]

Invigorating inaugural Conference on Computational Science at NDSU to lift us out of the mid-semester doldrums. And the best name tags I’ve seen.