33 Sarah Harmon Uses AI to Create Illuminating Metaphors

Sarah Harmon began writing computer-generated poetry at high school, using programs like Logo Writer, an educational programming language that includes rules for grammar and structure. She published her work in her high school literary magazine under the pseudonym Dan Goshen, an anagram of Ogden Nash. She “was enthralled that we can interact with technology and how this can affect us emotionally,” she says. As an undergraduate, she began by studying neuroscience, then switched to mathematics and computer science and completed a PhD in computer science at the University of California at Santa Cruz.