On March 5, 2026, Prof. Kris Paulsen and Prof. Jennifer Rhee (VCU) led a seminar for Dartmouth College’s Leslie Center for the Humanities on "AI and Refusal.” 

This Leslie Center Seminar on Humanities and Technology explores current humanities-based inquiry into AI: What different technologies share the label 'AI'? How does the history of its development and financing affect what AI does and for whom it's useful? What questions and methods are humanities scholars currently applying in their analyses of AI? What particular challenges do we face as humanities scholars thinking about AI?