Faculty Research

“It’s not that AI can’t be creative. But even with all its technical whizz, AI can’t make up for the human brain’s limitless creative potential. I have no problem saying that AI can be creative. What I think we have to be careful of is to assume that it’s a replacement for human creativity. If we lose the diversity of new ideas that has always been the basis of generating innovative approaches to solve old problems, we are not likely to solve those big societal or global problems.”

“So much of the concept of innovation has been packaged as something that happens in Silicon Valley. But historically, marginalized people had to be innovative because the system excluded them. I wanted to recognize my own growth as a researcher. I had probably very little understanding of food justice and environmental justice … and I really taught myself that while I was writing this book.”