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.
• Insights for Society: New Research Unit for Data Science
  Oct 17, 2022 Digital Humanism, Research, Social Responsibility The new Research Unit for Data Science at TU Wien Informatics is committed to using data for societal good.

Sep 2022

• Humanities Festival 2022
  Sep 27, 2022 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Research, Public Outreach In our age of uncertainty, this festival offers transdisciplinary dialogue. On October 2, Dean Gerti Kappel speaks about the chances of Digital Humanism.
• 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.
• Digital Trustworthiness
  Sep 6, 2022 Digital Humanism, Research, Event, Digital Transformation Networking event for cross-border research & business cooperation between tech developers & adopters from Austria, Czechia, and Slovakia.

Jul 2022

• LogicLounge with Stuart J. Russell
  Jul 28, 2022 Digital Humanism, Logic and Algorithms, CAIML, VCLA AI expert Stuart J. Russell talks about why a superintelligent AI could destroy us all, and how we have to rethink AI’s benefits.

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.