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Princeton's Martin Co-Organizes First ICML Culture-AI Workshop

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  • Princeton's Meredith Martin co-organized the first ICML workshop dedicated to culture and AI, held July 10, 2026 in Seoul.
  • The workshop was one of 44 accepted from 247 proposals, co-run with the Alan Turing Institute, Google DeepMind, and Cornell.
  • Featured speakers came from Emory, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Colorado Boulder, and Google DeepMind, with lightning talks from McGill, KAIST, Duke, and Groningen.

Meredith Martin, Princeton's professor of English and director of the Center for Digital Humanities, co-organized the first ICML workshop devoted to culture and AI, held July 10, 2026 in Seoul. According to the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities, "Culture × AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology" was "one of only 44 workshops chosen out of 247 proposals," and marked "the first time ICML has hosted a workshop dedicated to this topic."

Co-organizers included the Alan Turing Institute, Google DeepMind, and Cornell. The program's central theme, "Interpretive Technologies," examined "how humanistic traditions of meaning-making and contextual and aesthetic judgment can be built into AI design," and asked how the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences can inform AI development from the outset.

Featured speakers were Lauren Klein of Emory, Ted Underwood of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Maria Antoniak of Colorado Boulder, and Joel Z. Leibo of Google DeepMind, with lightning talks from researchers at McGill, KAIST, Duke, and the University of Groningen.

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