Nov 2023

• Anu Bradford: Digital Empires - The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
  Nov 21, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Anu Bradford talks about the global battle to regulate technology.
• Can Machines Save the World?
  Nov 16, 2023 Digital Humanism, Conference, CAIML Too much doom and gloom in AI and beyond? CAIML and IWM host this year’s Digital Humanism Fellowship Conference and focus on the potential of digital tech.

Oct 2023

• From Joseph Weizenbaum to ChatGPT
  Oct 25, 2023 Digital Humanism Critical Encounters with Dazzling AI Technology, explained by Christiane Floyd.
• Stefan Neumann to Establish Vienna Research Group
  Oct 18, 2023 Digital Humanism, Grant, WWTF Neumann receives the WWTF VRG Grant to found a new research group on trustworthy recommender systems for online social networks.
• Rainer Mühlhoff: Predictive Privacy
  Oct 17, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Rainer Mühlhoff explains the risks of secondary use of trained ML models regarding the privacy.

Sep 2023

• Cybernetic Socialists
  Sep 7, 2023 Digital Humanism An interdisciplinary discussion about computers and revolution in Allendes Chile, hosted by Wiener Zeitung, the Digital Humanism Summer School and Angewandte.
• 2nd ACM Digital Humanism Summer School
  Sep 4, 2023 Digital Humanism, Summer School, CAIML Join leading experts in informatics, social sciences, and humanities to collaborate on pressing issues of digital politics, economy, and technology.

Jun 2023

• “Don’t Humanize AI!”
  Jun 12, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Research, Doctoral School Ricardo Baeza-Yates, international AI expert, unravels why AI is acting irresponsibly and what we can do about it.
• Responsible AI: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  Jun 7, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Doctoral School Ricardo Baeza-Yates, renowned computer scientist and expert on implications of technology, talks about responsible AI.
• Logic Lounge 2023: Bart Selman & Carla P. Gomes
  Jun 6, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, VCLA This year’s Logic Lounge brings together two experts in AI and logic to delve into the field of Computational Sustainability.
• Vienna Gödel Lecture 2023: Carla P. Gomes
  Jun 5, 2023 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Carla P. Gomes, AI expert and pioneer in Computational Sustainability talks about how we can create a sustainable future with AI.

May 2023

• Alexander Pretschner: Software Can Do Wrong
  May 16, 2023 Digital Humanism, Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Alexander Pretschner talks about ethics in agile software engineering.
• UNESCO Awards Chair on Digital Humanism to TU Wien Informatics
  May 15, 2023 Digital Humanism, Event In research and teaching, ethical questions regarding the development of digital technology are of utmost importance.
• Inauguration of the UNESCO Chair on Digital Humanism
  May 15, 2023 Digital Humanism, Event TU Wien Informatics launches the first UNESCO Chair on Digital Humanism to address the ethical, societal, and political challenges of digital technology.
• Ann Light: Planet-Centric Design and finding Socio-Technical Alternatives
  May 11, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School What kind of societal transformation is needed to address climate breakdown and how can technology support it?
• Jürgen Pfeffer: Studying Human Behavior with Data from Social Media Platforms
  May 8, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, CDL RecSys Issues and challenges when working with API data and the future of social media research in a possible post API world.
• Gordana Dodig-Crnković: Research-Based Teaching Ethics to Engineering Students
  May 4, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School The expert on education in engineering and research ethics will talk about her teaching experience and how Digital Humanism shapes the field.

Apr 2023

• AI + Logic Week
  Apr 24, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture Three public lectures by groundbreaking researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and logic – for experts and beginners alike.

Mar 2023

• Statement of the Digital Humanism Initiative on ChatGPT
  Mar 28, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Following the recent occurrence of ChatGPT, Helga Nowotny and George Metakides will outline a possible new online world.
• ChatGPT – A Catalyst for What Kind of Future?
  Mar 21, 2023 Digital Humanism Read the statement of the Digital Humanism Initiative on ChatGPT and how the online world will change.
• Wer reguliert das Internet? Eine Suche ohne Ende
  Mar 13, 2023 Digital Humanism, Event, Panel Discussion Die Podiumsdiskussion findet im Rahmen der Reihe “Digitaler Humanismus - Transformation gestalten” der Wiener Zeitung statt.
• Gary Marcus: “On ChatGPT”
  Mar 9, 2023 Digital Humanism, Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Gary Marcus is a prominent public voice on the development of AI. In this lecture, he will present his latest take on ChatGPT.
• Cory Doctorow: “Seize the Means of Computation”
  Mar 7, 2023 Digital Humanism, Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility In this online lecture, Cory Doctorow will discuss the potential of a free and fair future of technology.

Feb 2023

• Our Experts on the Latest Developments in AI
  Feb 21, 2023 Digital Humanism, Research, AI ChatGPT is all over the news, and the advancement and challenges of AI are ever more apparent. Read about our latest media activities and upcoming events.
• Tina Peterson: “Abstracted Power and Responsibility”
  Feb 21, 2023 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility In this online lecture, Tina Peterson will talk about abstracted power and a greater sense of personal responsibility.

Jan 2023

• James A. Landay: “AI for Good Isn’t Good Enough – A Call for Human-Centered AI”
  Jan 24, 2023 Digital Humanism, Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility In this online lecture, James A. Landay will talk about user-, community-, and societally-centered AI and the need for multidisciplinarity.

Dec 2022

• Luke Munn, Erich Prem: The Uselessness of AI Ethics
  Dec 6, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, AI Luke Munn (University of Queensland) and Erich Prem (Universität Wien & eutema) discuss the potential and challenges of ethical AI systems.

Nov 2022

• Open Societies and Democratic Sustainability in the Shadow of Big Tech
  Nov 22, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Doctoral School IWM Digital Humanism Fellow Allison Stanger speaks about technological innovation and its impacts on the contemporary world.
• Is AI Good or Bad for the Climate? It’s Complicated.
  Nov 15, 2022 Digital Humanism, Research, Sustainability, AI The DigHum Lecture Series is happy to have David Rolnick from McGill University give a talk on AI and its impacts on climate issues.

Oct 2022

• Kate Crawford: “Rocks, Flesh, and Rockets. A Political Ecology of AI”
  Oct 18, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility Kate Crawford maps the global impacts of large-scale computation on the environment, personal data, and human labor.