The Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing will host The Humanities and AI: Critical Conversations, a three-part conversation series this spring semester focused on generative artificial intelligence and its impact on land, labor, water, and writing. The first sessions will focus on two recent books about the costs of generative AI: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao and Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival by Dustin Edwards. Both are available as eBooks via the UGA Libraries. Conversations are open to all UGA faculty and graduate students and will take place in the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing, Room 370 of the Miller Learning Center. Light refreshments will be provided for each conversation. Discussions will be facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Hallman Martini (pictured, left), associate professor of English and director of the Willis Center for Writing, and Dr. Elise Robinson (right), academic professional and program director for the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. Guest faculty members will join Hallman Martini and Robinson in conversation for each event. The series is co-presented by the Willis Center and the Willson Center.