On Friday, April 4, 2025 I will offer an invited talk titled “Dr. CyberLeo: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI,” held at 9:00 am (CT) at University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Here’s a description of the talk.

“Dr. CyberLeo: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI,” explores the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and scholarly writing within the framework of cyborg writing—a concept that captures how our work is increasingly shaped by digital technologies like spell and grammar checkers, predictive keyboards, suggested texts, generative AI, and bespoke text-generation engines. This talk presents a framework for scholarly and creative writing built on six key principles—transparency, accuracy, source attribution, responsibility, originality, and quality—that ensure AI’s integration into the research and writing process is both responsible and controlled by the human portion of the cyborg author. Attendees will learn how to navigate challenges such as AI-induced inaccuracies, biases, and plagiarism while embracing these tools as powerful collaborators in ideation and content creation, ultimately fostering a future where human ingenuity and technological innovation join forces to advance scholarly and creative endeavors.

Here’s a link to the slides for my talk. And here’s a recording of the talk: