CSTMS Affiliates Hannes Bajohr and Nina Beguš have received UC Berkeley’s Peder Sather grant for a collaborative project on AI and narrative with the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative. In collaboration with their Norwegian colleagues, they will investigate how AI-generated texts reflect, reshape, or distort human narrative structures, asking what it means for machines to tell stories and how such narratives carry social, cultural, and ethical consequences. By combining narratology, literary theory, and digital culture studies with computer science, it seeks to understand the limits and possibilities of AI narration as a new genre of text.
For more information about the Peder Sather grant, please visit the Sather Center website.
Both researchers have also received the France-Berkeley Fund to collaborate with French scholars Antonio Somaini (Sorbonne-Nouvelle) and Alexandre Gefen (CNRS) on the project "The Latent Spaces of Culture," which will explore how the mathematical “latent spaces” that underpin AI are reshaping cultural knowledge, visual culture, and writing. Through events like a Paris workshop and a Berkeley exhibition, it connects technology and the humanities to reveal how AI transforms the ways we create, remember, and understand the world.
For more information about the France-Berkeley-fund, please visit the FBF Website(link is external.