What happens when you bring Aristotle, Plato, and Beauvoir into conversation with the most powerful technology ever created?

The world's first human-centered AI curriculum. Built at a small college in Ohio. Downloaded at 4,760 institutions across 198 countries.

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Years of Humane Studies
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Years of Human-Centered AI
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AI Safety & Governance
Principal Investigators for NIST's AI Safety Institute. LLM evaluation, red-teaming, ethical auditing, and comparative global AI regulation.
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Computational Social Science
Multi-agent behavioral simulation, affective AI, narrative analysis. Empirical methods applied to judicial, medical, and social decision-making.
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Cultural Heritage & Archival AI
Schmidt Sciences-funded work rescuing endangered archives. Community-governed data sovereignty. AI for multilingual cultural preservation.
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Built in a small village in Ohio. Research downloaded in more countries than the UN has members.
90,000+
Research downloads and counting
4,760
Institutions in 198 countries
197
Original student research projects
22
Faculty papers at top venues
‘The human-centered AI curriculum at Kenyon encompassed the true essence of a liberal arts education: using a wide range of academic disciplines to discuss world-changing contemporary issues.’
Raul Romero, Class of 2022
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Still asking the biggest questions

IPHS was founded on a conviction: that the biggest questions about humanity deserve the most rigorous, interdisciplinary answers. AI, Humanities & Society is what IPHS has always been, applied to what the world needs most.

AI Safety & Governance
LLM evaluation, red-teaming, ethical auditing, and comparative global regulation. Active PI roles at NIST CAISI.
Computational Social Science
Multi-agent behavioral simulation, affective AI, narrative analysis, and predictive modeling across judicial, medical, and social contexts.
Cultural Heritage & Archival AI
Schmidt Sciences-funded work rescuing endangered archives. Community-governed data sovereignty. Open-source tools for institutions worldwide.

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