May 2024

• 7. Zukunftstalk der Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
  May 15, 2024 Digital Humanism, Panel Discussion, Public Outreach Zwischen Zweifel und Fakten: Die Grundlagen des Fortschritts.

Apr 2024

• Our Experts on the Latest Developments in AI
  Apr 9, 2024 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.

Mar 2024

• Virgilio Almeida: Algorithmic Institutionalism
  Mar 19, 2024 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Virgilio Almeida introduces a new concept viewing algorithms as emerging institutions in modern societies.
• Wiener Vorlesungen: Digitaler Humanismus
  Mar 18, 2024 Digital Humanism Wie verändert Digitalisierung uns und unser Zusammenleben? Hannes Werthner spricht über Folgen und Chancen digitaler Technologien.
• Educating on Ethical and Social Impacts of Digital Technologies
  Mar 5, 2024 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Panel discussion on the challenges of designing new approaches and methods for educating computer professionals.

Feb 2024

• Daron Acemoğlu: Can we have pro-human AI?
  Feb 13, 2024 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event Daron Acemoğlu discusses how generative AI can be a force for good or evil, depending on the choices we make as a society.

Jan 2024

• Thomas Lohninger: Digital Identity Systems
  Jan 23, 2024 Digital Humanism Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of Europe’s ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure.
• U.S.–Austria Citizen Dialogue: AI’s Impact on Democracy
  Jan 17, 2024 Digital Humanism, International Outreach In 2024’s record election year, a global forum at TU Wien examined AI’s critical influence on democracies and ways to navigate its challenges.
• Fostering Democracy in the Age of AI
  Jan 16, 2024 Digital Humanism, Event BMEIA, TU Wien Informatics, and the U.S. Embassy discuss AI’s impact on democracy, addressing challenges and potentials with international experts.

Dec 2023

• The EU AI Act: A Success Story
  Dec 19, 2023 Digital Humanism, Panel Discussion Join Kai Zenner and George Metakides for a panel discussion on the state of AI Act.
• Statement on the EU AI Act
  Dec 1, 2023 Digital Humanism The EU AI Act is in the final phase, and there are considerable risks for its regulations. Support the statement of the Digital Humanism Initiative.

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.