Artificial Intelligence Pioneer De Kai speaks at Georgetown as part of CDE’s collaborative program with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative

On October 15, 2025 AI pioneer De Kai, one of the most important voices in the world today on the impact and future of AI, spoke to an enthusiastic audience in Gaston Hall. Read about the event in the College of Arts and Sciences newsletter

De Kai, author of Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future (June 2025) is the pioneering AI professor who invented and built the web’s first global online language translator. He is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute.

Respondents:
Laura DeNardis, Endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society and Director, Center for Digital Ethics
Edward Maloney, Executive Director, The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS); Professor of the Practice, Department of English

Please note: De Kai has  developed pedagogical resources to complement his book, which he hopes will be useful to faculty members and students.

Co-sponsored by The Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Center for Digital Ethics at Georgetown University as part of our “What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI” series along with the College of Arts and Sciences