Nina Beguš

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education.

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What is Cultural AI and the objects of its study? My paper addresses literary tools that can be borrowed to address cultural AI issues. The paper is on now ArXiv and forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies in Spring 2027. arxiv.org/abs/2607.02369

[2607.02369] World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI arxiv.org
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  • Nina Begus argues LLMs stage a cultural encounter that is 'massive, automated, and monolingual,' and proposes literary scholarship as the corrective toolkit.
  • The essay proposes applying world literature methods — macrostructure, circulation, and untranslatability — to build culturally literate AI.
  • The 15-page essay is forthcoming in MFS Modern Fiction Studies in 2027 and connects critical theory to structural monolingualism in AI.
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Nobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute: “Yaghi …voiced concern about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation’s system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

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The "Hidden Layers" exhibition examines some of the concealed dimensions of contemporary AI culture — the planetary infrastructures of extraction and computation, the often invisible human labor, the latent vector spaces within which culture is compressed and... events.berkele…

Exhibition Opening Reception: “Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations” events.berkeley.edu
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  • Hidden Layers opens at UC Berkeley's Worth Ryder Art Gallery with a reception on September 3, 2026, and runs through October 3.
  • The show is curated by Antonio Somaini with Hannes Bajohr and Sonja Thiel, tied to the France-Berkeley initiative The Latent Spaces of Culture.
  • Featured artists include Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Grégory Chatonsky, Mario Santamaria and others, working across AI infrastructures and hallucinations.
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The International Conference on Computational Creativity is hosting an Artificial Humanities workshop on narratives and AI. computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/works...

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Whenever I speak about other architectures than transformers, it becomes clear that the audience tends to think in terms of LLMs or just plainly about LLMs. They've taken all the head space.

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