--- title: Erik Otárola-Castillo | TIME description: Otárola-Castillo is an associate professor of anthropology at Purdue University, a core faculty member at The Methodology Center at Purdue, and a Purdue CLA AI initiative member. He teaches archaeology, statistics, scientific modeling, and AI literacy. His research combines data science and archaeology to study human behavior, climate change, and long-term dietary evolution. canonical: https://time.com/author/erik-otarola-castillo/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/erik-otarola-castillo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Erik Otárola-Castillo ## Erik Otárola-Castillo Otárola-Castillo is an associate professor of anthropology at Purdue University, a core faculty member at The Methodology Center at Purdue, and a Purdue CLA AI initiative member. He teaches archaeology, statistics, scientific modeling, and AI literacy. His research combines data science and archaeology to study human behavior, climate change, and long-term dietary evolution. ## Erik Otárola-Castillo *  Jun 7, 2025 ### [AI Can’t Replace Education](https://time.com/7291558/ai-cant-replace-education/) "AI will not make education irrelevant or replace humans. But we might replace ourselves if we forge... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/erik-otarola-castillo/","name":"Erik Otárola-Castillo"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/erik-otarola-castillo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/erik-otarola-castillo/"},"name":"Erik Otárola-Castillo","jobTitle":"Contributor","description":"Otárola-Castillo is an associate professor of anthropology at Purdue University, a core faculty member at The Methodology Center at Purdue, and a Purdue CLA AI initiative member. He teaches archaeology, statistics, scientific modeling, and AI literacy. His research combines data science and archaeology to study human behavior, climate change, and long-term dietary evolution.","url":"https://time.com/author/erik-otarola-castillo/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```