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# bok-ai-projects-2025

## **Bok Center AI Projects (as of Fall 2025)**

### **People & Structure**

* **2 Postdoctoral Fellows** supporting and evaluating AI initiatives
* **23 Bok Graduate Fellows** are working on projects related to "teaching in the age of AI." In some cases this might involve ways of ways of "AI-proofing" assignments and exams, while in others it might mean developing ways for students to use AI tools to learn more effectively, or to create projects that go beyond what they could achieve without AI augmentation.
* **≈13 Undergraduate Fellows (LLUFs)** contributing to AI-enhanced media production, data visualization, and learning-experience design.
* **6 Full-time Learning Lab staff**

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### **Core Initiatives**

* **Bok AI Lab (weekly working group)** — Harvard’s internal incubator for generative-AI pedagogy and research.

  * Participants: faculty, grad students, staff from arts, sciences & humanities.
  * Activities: AI news roundups + hands-on coding prototyping.
  * Outputs: Python notebooks, teaching resources, case studies, AI news archives, and monthly digests.
* **AI in the Curriculum** — faculty workshops and consultations on AI-integrated assignments, syllabi, and Canvas policies; creation of “AI-resilient” and “AI-collaborative” teaching models.
* **AI Certificate Programs** — developing new Bok Center certificate tracks in *Generative AI* and *Civil Discourse*.
* **AI Workshops & Prototyping** — topics include AI for Data Visualization, LLMs for Qualitative Analysis, and interactive AI storytelling.
* **The Workbook Project** — Next.js and Python codebase developed by the Learning Lab for interactive AI writing, real-time speech transcription, and AI-driven media production.
* **AI@FAS Coordination Group** — Bok Center represented on the FAS-wide committee aligning pedagogy, research, and administration around AI policy and infrastructure.

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### **Representative Projects**

* **Expos with AI** — experimental course on AI-assisted academic writing using Zettelkasten and Python notebooks.
* **Translation Studies + AI Tools** — faculty using AI-assisted translation and voice interfaces for multilingual teaching.
* **AI in Science Communication** — grad fellow-led Streamlit apps for data visualization and interactive research presentations.
* **Studio Prototyping** — multichannel installations using the OpenAI Realtime API for AI-generated lecture footnotes and interactive teleprompters.
* **Public Engagement** — book chapter and presentations on *The Learning Lab as AI Studio-Classroom* and *Humanities & AI*.

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### **Scale & Reach (2025 estimates)**

* **~60 faculty** served in AI-related consultations or workshops since Fall 2024.
* **>20 AI-related student and fellow projects** active across undergraduate and graduate levels.
* **Cross-unit collaborations** with HUIT (ATG + AI Sandbox), VPAL, and GSAS (Harvard Horizons SciComm training).

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- oral exam for Sarah since that's this week
- Moira
- ai lab workshop series
- karen's HUM 2
- mahindra humanities seminar
- hum 7
- slavic
- japanese cinema
- video games
- mw/mk pres from HILT
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