Why the CUNY AI Lab runs nearly all of its tools on open-weight models — what open weights are, what frontier models cost to run, and how open models have closed the capability gap.

<h3> Edited by Inés Vañó García and Laurie Hurson</h3> <p> "A critical approach to pedagogy and technology must address the institutional realities that shape our use of technologies and the conditio...

From Revolutionary New York to immigration and Indigenous identity, Graduate Center scholars illuminate the people and forces that have shaped America over 250 years.

Conference Focus: Emergence/ia

Conference Focus: Emergence/ia

Call for Chapters — an edited collection. Abstracts due August 15.

A CAIL Fellow reflects on building a personal Pomodoro timer through AI-assisted prototyping in the Spring 2026 workshop series — and on the ambivalence of doing so.

Why the CUNY AI Lab is starting a blog, and what to expect from posts here.

Please see below the schedule for ACH 2026. Please note the schedule is set at Central Standard Time (CST).

by Zach Muhlbauer During a summer composition course, a LaGuardia student learns their work has come under suspicion that it was written by AI. The instructor claims the student’s spoken and writte…

A digital poetry collection

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3> <p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...

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A review of the CUNY Distance Learning Archive, a crowdsourced archive documenting the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, led by Stefano Morello, Zach Muhlbauer, Nicole Cote, Travis M. Bartley, and ...

The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni of the City University of New York.