University of Wisconsin–Madison

Center Leadership

The Center’s Faculty Director benefits from the guidance of two groups, a Steering Committee and Advisory Board, which play distinct roles in ensuring that the Center produces enduring research about AI’s effects on humanistic values.

Headshot of faculty Director Jeremy Morris. He has short, brown hair and is wearing a gray undershirt, glue checkered jacket, blue jeans, and watch. He is sitting behind pile of vinyl records, cds, and cassette tapes.
Photo credit: Paulius Musteikis

Faculty Director: Jeremy Morris

Dr. Morris is the Faculty Director for the Center for Humanistic Inquiry into AI and Uncertainty, and was a member of the Steering Committee which secured the Center’s funding and established the Center’s mission.

Dr. Morris’s research focuses on how new technologies affect the ways we make, understand, discover, and interact with cultural goods, especially music and podcasts. His most recent book, Podcasting (Polity Press, 2024), looks at the industrial, technological, economic, and aesthetic history of the podcasting industry from its beginnings in the late 1990s and early 2000s to its rise to a dominant, mainstream format. Dr. Morris’s research related to AI has focused on the ways in which musicians and the music industry are incorporating generative AI and other artificial intelligence technologies into their process for making music.

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is a multi-disciplinary faculty group who work on the political, ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI through various disciplinary perspectives. The Committee outlined what issues the Center’s research addresses as well as the broad methodology it adopts to do so. The Committee also contributed to the development of UW Madison’s Ethics of Data and AI Certificate.

Headshot of Clinton Castro. He has short black hair, a beard, and is wearing glasses, a blue button up shirt, and a watch.
Clinton Castro
The Information School
Headshot of Jimmy Goodrich. He has brown, short hair and is wearing a blue sweater over a collared shirt.
Jimmy Goodrich
Philosophy
Headshot of Devin Kennedy. He has short, straight, brown hair, and is wearing a white button down shirt under a blue jacket.

Devin Kennedy
History
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Jeremy Morris
Communication Arts
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Alan Rubel
The Information School
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Annette Zimmermann
Philosophy

Advisory Board

The Center also benefits from a standing Advisory Board of faculty directors and administrators who have helped launch the Center and will ensure it takes the steps needed to achieve its aims.

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Grant Nelsestuen
Associate Dean, Arts and Humanities
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Florence Hsia
Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research, Arts and Humanities
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Susan Ridgley
Interim Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities
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Russ Castronovo
Director, Center for the Humanities
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Niamh McGuigan
Associate Dean for Research, UW—Madison Libraries
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Anna Haensch
Associate Director, Digital Scholarship Hub and Data Science Institute Rep.
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Michael Swift
Professor, Computer Sciences