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Adult students invited to study AI, painting, and writing.

Bennington College announces the launch of the Bennington Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), a new interdisciplinary initiative devoted to studying artificial intelligence with technical precision and ethical seriousness. It is an academic response to a transformation already underway in education, labor, creativity, and public life.

Six Bennington College faculty members have been named 2025 Whiting fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, which provides funding for travel that will deepen and expand their teaching and curriculum development.

Computer Scientist Darcy Otto studies the foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and AI ethics and is starting as a new faculty member in the spring term. He is eager to help students discover how to think like computer scientists and how deep questions connect seemingly disparate areas of study.