"The sleep of liberal arts produces AI." At the opening of the previous symposium, the keynote speaker shrewdly put forward this statement, proposing the liberal arts education to stay awake in the age of AI. At Colby College, the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence endeavors to integrate the two, interrogating and experimenting a liberal arts education organically intertwined with AI. In collaboration with academic and administrative departments across campus, Colby has initiated a responsible AI ecosystem for research, learning, and entrepreneurship. We are developing a multitude of AI programming by situating faculty, students, and staff at the center, while piloting privacy preserving and cost-effective technical infrastructure for campus use. During this session, we will share our approach to a responsible AI ecosystem, attempting to carve out a space and time for the audience to think through a practical AI integration in the context of their home institution.
