We're bringing students together to have important conversations about how AI is impacting our life, work, creativity and communities.
Vote for our next topic or submit your own question below!
Convened by Shalaka Bapat in collaboration with the Columbia Tech Club #ClaudePartner
How might everyday use change what we prioritize, admire, or consider acceptable, and would we notice those changes?
What are the psychological, social, and legal implications of anthropomorphizing AI?
How much of knowing what is good comes from trying to make it? Can judging what AI produces teach us the same things as creating?
How does writing help us think better? How does using AI impact the way we express ourselves?
How much of our identity and purpose should come from work, and which parts would we want to keep even if we could hand them over?
What do we gain from intellectual effort, and how do we decide when to take a shortcut?
Is it the idea, the effort, the decisions, or something else? How does that feeling change when AI contributes to the work?
What does it take to build for people whose needs are less profitable to serve?
How does using AI shape our journeys of faith?
If AI saves us time, what do we want to do with it? Does making things faster change our willingness to be patient?
What influence should people have over systems that affect their lives? How can we increase participation in the design of AI products?
Which early tasks build the judgment we rely on later? What could an apprenticeship look like when those tasks are automated?
Have a question about AI you want us to talk about? Add it here and we'll consider it for the list.
This is a student-led program. We encourage critical thinking, skepticism, enthusiasm and healthy debate!
Claude Campus Conversations is a student-led series at Columbia for talking honestly about how AI is changing our lives, work, creativity and communities.
Anyone can vote on the questions they care about most, or submit their own. The most-voted questions become the topic for our next conversation!
All are welcome to join - there's no technical or academic expertise needed. We encourage critical thinking, skepticism, enthusiasm and healthy debate.
Hi, I'm Shalaka. I'm an anthropologist, an MBA student at Columbia Business School and a Claude Campus Ambassador. Before my MBA, I worked in consumer marketing for Tinder and Headspace. This summer, I helped creators grow on TikTok. I love reading, writing and telling stories.
I convene these conversations to bring students together around the questions about AI that people are already asking.
Say hello: sbapat27@gsb.columbia.edu