Sep 2022

• Digital Humanism Summer School
  Sep 19, 2022 Digital Humanism, Summer School Join leading experts in informatics, social sciences, and humanities to collaborate on pressing issues of digital politics, economy, and technology.

Jun 2022

• Eric Horvitz: “AI Advances, Responsibilities, and Governance”
  Jun 28, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, tells us about the potential costs of AI and corporate responsibilities.
• Laura Devendorf: “Reconsidering Technology through the Lens of Weaving”
  Jun 14, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture Laura Devendorf tells us what weaving has to do with software development and how we can use it as a completely new way to look at design and interaction.
• “Why We Rely on Badly Behaving Machines”
  Jun 10, 2022 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture Toby Walsh tells us about the future of AI and why we should reconsider existing approaches to technology development.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2022: Toby Walsh
  Jun 9, 2022 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Toby Walsh, AI expert and “rock star” of Australia's digital revolution talks about machines behaving badly.

May 2022

• Explaining the Unexplainable
  May 25, 2022 Digital Humanism, Report, Public Lecture, CAIML, AI Edward A. Lee, distinguished computer scientist and expert on societal implications of technology, unravels the black boxes of machines and human minds alike.
• Edward A. Lee: “Limits of Machines, Limits of Humans”
  May 24, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Edward A. Lee, distinguished computer scientist and expert on societal implications of technology, talks about the limits of explainable AI.
• Edward A. Lee Awarded TU Wien Honorary Doctorate
  May 18, 2022 Digital Humanism, Award, Excellence TU Wien honors Lee for his outstanding achievements in computer sciences, philosophy of technology, and digital humanism.
• Frances Haugen: “The Facebook Files”
  May 17, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen will talk about accountability & transparency in Social Media.
• The Hackers and Me: Hacking and Politics
  May 13, 2022 Digital Humanism, Interview Marco Squarcina talks about how to become a hacker, whether there is a hacker ethic, the present and future of cyberwars, and state-sponsored hacking.
• Walking the Red Line – AI and Regulations
  May 6, 2022 Digital Humanism, Report, Panel Discussion, AI, Social Responsibility How can we regulate complex algorithmic systems? Law experts and computer scientists join forces to tackle the challenges of democratic technology development.
• Algorithms. Data. Surveillance – Is There a Way Out?
  May 5, 2022 Digital Humanism, Event, Panel Discussion, Public Outreach Panelists Marc Rotenberg, Maximilian Schrems, and Christiane Wendehorst discuss democracy, digitalization, and ways to take action. Moderation by Josef Broukal.
• Opening of the Christian Doppler Lab for Recommender Systems
  May 3, 2022 Digital Humanism, Research, Opening Event, Christian Doppler Labor, Excellence The new lab at the Institute for Information Systems Engineering deals with dynamic aspects of recommendations and domain-depended solutions.

Apr 2022

• Carles Sierra: “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”
  Apr 26, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Carles Sierra talks about responsible technology and how to counteract social fears of AI.
• AI Ethics as Translational Ethics
  Apr 5, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, AI, Social Responsibility David Danks talks about the ethical implications of AI and how we can create ethics specific to AI design, development, and deployment.

Mar 2022

• How AI may threaten the political capacity of human intelligence
  Mar 29, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Benjamin Gregg talks about how some forms of artificial intelligence may one day threaten the political capacity of human intelligence.
• Digital Humanism Fellowship Kick-off
  Mar 18, 2022 Digital Humanism, CAIML, Guest Professor, Social Responsibility TU Wien Informatics cooperates with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) to promote Digital Humanism research initiatives.
• “Science Is Political!”
  Mar 10, 2022 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Innovation, Public Outreach The war in Ukraine shows how urgent the debate about digital technologies is. The 4th DIGHUM workshop dealt with initiatives for a peaceful digital society.
• DIGHUM 2022: Towards a Research and Innovation Roadmap
  Mar 3, 2022 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Social Responsibility How to advance digital technologies towards realizing inclusion and democratic societies. The 4th Workshop on Digital Humanism.

Feb 2022

• Why AI is Harder Than We Think
  Feb 22, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, AI, Social Responsibility Melanie Mitchell talks about why the development of long-promised AI tech has turned out to be much harder than many people expected.
• Job Scenarios 2030: How the World of Work has Changed Around the Globe
  Feb 8, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Daniel Samaan talks about how the world of work will look like in 2030. Moderation by George Metakides.

Jan 2022

• What is a “Truly Ethical” Artificial Intelligence?
  Jan 25, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Antonio Casilli talks about an end-to-end approach to responsible and humane technological systems.

Nov 2021

• Transition From Labor-intensive to Tech-intensive Surveillance in China
  Nov 16, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Minxin Pei talks about of the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state.
• Towards a Research and Innovation Roadmap: Cancelled!
  Nov 12, 2021 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Social Responsibility We have to postpone the workshop due to the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Austria. New date in Feb/Mar 2022 to be announced.
• Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?
  Nov 9, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Marc Rotenberg talks about how effectively new policy frameworks address AI-related challenges in the areas of human rights and democratic values.

Oct 2021

• Digitalization in Health & Care
  Oct 20, 2021 Digital Humanism, Event, Social Responsibility Researchers from TU Wien and Viennese companies present work in Digital Humanism and Digitalization in Health and Care.
• Human-Centered AI
  Oct 12, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.

Sep 2021

• Perspectives on Digital Humanism
  Sep 22, 2021 Digital Humanism, Research, Social Responsibility A collection of 46 articles from experts with different disciplinary backgrounds, who provide their view on the interplay of human and machine.

Aug 2021

• Digital Humanism: The Poysdorf Declaration
  Aug 5, 2021 Digital Humanism, News, Social Responsibility The ministers of foreign affairs of Austria, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic signed the Poysdorf Declaration on Digital Humanism.

Jun 2021

• Should we preserve the world's software history, and can we?
  Jun 29, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Roberto Di Cosmo (INRIA, France) and Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) discuss the role of software in cultural heritage.