News and Events

CHAIS Fall Symposium Oct. 20, 2:30-5:00p.m., Cone 210B Registration here. Part of the CHESS AI Week. Program: 2:30-2:35 Welcome and Introduction to Center for Humane AI Studies (CHAIS) (Gordon Hull, Philosophy, SDS and Ethics Center) 2:35-3:15 “An Analysis of U.S. and N.C. Public Opinion on AI Safety, Job Impact, and Governance (2025 Update),” Jason Windett […]

Monday, October 13th, 2025 4-6PM Halton Room, Atkins Library Registration and RSVP here. Extraction: The Frontiers of Green CapitalismWill green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies […]

Join us for a conversation with our own Bethany Johnson on the role of social media in healthcare. Register here!

Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one hand, they are designed and manufactured technological artifacts. They are things. Yet, and on the other hand, these things are not quite like other things. They seem to have social presence. They are able to talk and interact with us. And many are designed to […]

Join us for a conversation with the scholar activists at the Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology. Register here!

Join us for a talk by Marissa Nichols of Emory University on Nursing and Indigenous Health in Rural Mexico. Register here!

Please join William Freeman for a talk around the role of higher education in/and prison. Released from prison in 2018 after serving 20 years of his life-plus-20-years sentence, Freeman is currently a Bloomberg Fellow and a MPA candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He founded the Redistributing Agency and Wealthy Trust and […]

Nov. 1, 2024 10 am to 1 pm Student Union Room 200 Please RSVP here so we can order food!   Agenda 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction to CHAIS (Center for Humane AI Studies) (Gordon Hull, Philosophy and Ethics Center) 10:15-10:45 Public Attitudes about AI (Jason Windett, POLS and SDS; Cori Faklaris, Software and Information Systems) 10:45-11:15 […]

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Jada Wiggleton-Little (Asst. Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University): “Pain and the Limits of Epistemic Injustice” Register here for in person (11:30, Cone 210A, lunch provided) or here for Webinar (12:00)

CHAIS – The Center for Humane AI Studies – is an interdisciplinary research group at UNC Charlotte dedicated to exploring the implications of Artificial Intelligence from a humanities and social science perspective. Check out the website here.

Join us for a presentation by Travis N. Rieder, PhD; Director, Master of Bioethics Program at John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: “America’s Opioid Dilemma: Ethical Prescribing During a Drug Overdose Crisis” Register here for the in-person event (11:30am-12:45pm) and here for Webinar (12:00pm-12:45pm)