At the full-day collaborative workshop “AI, Humanities & the Arts,” speakers hosted by the Stanford Humanities Center stressed artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential to supplement human capabilities rather than replace them.

The workshop gathered speakers from Stanford’s new Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) initiative and across diverse University departments to discuss the implications of artificial intelligence for fields such as legal practice, healthcare, art, design and more.

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The workshop’s keynote speaker was Stanford Law School professor David Engstrom, who discussed legal and regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence.

“The current wave of tech is different from past waves of tech, because this wave of tech is transforming the legal system and the legal profession,” Engstrom said, pointing to predictive analytics in the criminal justice system and the development of legal technological tools as examples of changes resulting from the rise of AI technology.