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JANUARY | AI and Religion

Rähme, B. and Prohl, I. (2025) ‘Religious studies approaches to the intersection of artificial intelligence and religion: formations analogous to religion’, Religion, 55(3), pp. 573–595. doi: 10.1080/0048721X.2025.2506893.

FEBRUARY | AI and Moral Philosophy

DeGrazia, D. (2022) 'Robots with Moral Status?', Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 65(1), pp. 73–88. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2022.0004.

MARCH | AI and Literature I

Barthes, R. (1986) ‘The Death of the Author’, in Barthes, R. The Rustle of Language. Translated by R. Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 49–55.

Check availability on Google Books. This essay is contained within the collection 'The Rustle of Language'. We recommend checking your local or institutional library for a copy of this volume.

APRIL | AI and Literature II

Shelley, M. (2018) Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text. Edited by N. Groom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Read for free via Project Gutenberg. We recommend the 1818 text. For an academic edition with extensive notes, see ISBN: 9780192543721.

MAY | AI and History

McKelvie, G. (2025) ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History’, History Workshop, 11 November.

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JUNE | AI and Linguistics

Curry, N., McEnery, T. and Brookes, G. (2025) ‘A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics’, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 45, pp. 315–336. doi: 10.1017/S0267190525000017.

JULY | AI and Art History

Benjamin, W. (1968) ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Arendt, H. (ed.) Illuminations. Translated by H. Zohn. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pp. 217–251.

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AUGUST | AI, Music and Law

Lee, E. (2024) ‘AI and the Sound of Music’, Yale Law Journal, 22 November.

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SEPTEMBER | AI and Philosophy of Mind

Dreyfus, H.L. (1972) What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. New York: Harper & Row.

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OCTOBER | Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Dubreuil, L. (2025) Humanities in the Time of AI. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

This title is available as an Open Access Manifold Edition. You can read it directly via Project MUSE or University of Minnesota Press.

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