Keith Barrs

This month our JALT event will be held at Eikei University of Hiroshima, and you won’t want to miss it.

Is it too late to put the genie back in the bottle?

On July 1st, Keith Barrs will talk about generative AI, and its growing impact on the world. It’s title: Feeding the Dragon: Is the Rise of Generative AI the Demise of Humanity?

On the one hand, generative AI is a blessing. On the other, we can view generative AI as detracting from the creativity and uniqueness of human output.

Keith Barrs works in the Department of English at Hiroshima Shudo University. His main academic interests are in the fields of linguistic landscape research and corpus linguistics studies, in particular investigating the borrowing and assimilation of English loanwords into the Japanese language. More recently he also become interested in the impact of AI technologies, not only on the field of language education but also more generally on the survival of the human species as a whole.