Humanism in the Age of AI (Ana Ilievska)

What does it mean to speak of »the human« today, when it is increasingly invoked in the design, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence? This interdisciplinary volume attempts to rethink humanism. Across ethics, aesthetics, and social critique, the contributors explore agency and responsibility, freedom and labor, embodiment and cognition, practical wisdom, love and reciprocity, and the ways algorithmic systems reorganize meaning and worldhood. Humanism emerges not as a doctrine or defense of human exceptionality, but as a critical practice of care for a shared world under conditions of technological abstraction.

Ana Ilievska is an assistant professor of global liberal arts at the American University of Beirut Mediterraneo. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Southern European and Mediterranean literature and thought, with particular attention to humanism, abstraction, praxis, and critical perspectives on technology. She has previously held research positions at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Stanford University. A Fulbright alumna, she has published widely on literature, philosophy, and the humanities in the age of AI and has spoken at academic and industry conferences across Europe, North America, and Asia.