2020

Justice, but for whom?

2020-11-26
Event
Social Responsibility

Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University) explores our needs for digital services and how we can design digital technologies supporting better futures.

Public Lecture

Community-based Design of Open Source Software

2020-11-12
Event
Social Responsibility

Alex Ahmed (Carnegie Mellon University) points out that people are increasingly alienated from how technologies are designed.

Digital Humanism

Ethics and IT: How AI is Reshaping Our World

2020-11-03
Public Lecture
Event
Social Responsibility

This panel discussion, part of our DIGHUM lecture series, will deal with the ethical implications and global challenges of AI.

Public Lecture

Ten Challenges for Deontic Logic in AI

2020-11-03
Talk
Event
PhD School

The Vienna PhD School of Informatics invites to a talk by Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg).

Public Lecture

Braving Citational Justice within Human-Computer Interaction

2020-10-29
Event
Public Outreach
Social Responsibility

Neha Kumar and Naveena Karusala discuss citational justice in our new public lecture series on Critical Perspectives on Technology.

Digital Humanism

Responsibly Encouraging Adoption of Contact Tracing Apps

2020-10-20
Public Lecture
Event
Social Responsibility

Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism—this time with Elissa M. Redmiles from Microsoft Research.

Public Lecture

Race and the Problems with ‘Progress’ in FDP

2020-10-15
Event
Public Outreach
Social Responsibility

Join us online for our new public lecture series on Critical Perspectives on Technology, starting with Roos Hopman (Amsterdam).

Digital Humanism

Digital Sovereignty—Navigating Between Scylla & Charybdis

2020-10-06
Public Lecture
Event
Social Responsibility

Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, where international experts discuss digital sovereignty.

Digital Humanism

How Not to Destroy the World with Artificial Intelligence

2020-09-08
Public Lecture
Event
Social Responsibility

Join our DIGHUM lecture series with Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley presenting his views on this crucial issue.

Digital Humanism

Online Lecture Series on Digital Humanism

2020-06-09
Public Lecture
News
Social Responsibility

Following workshops and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to our online DIGHUM lectures, where we discuss different aspects of this topic.

Digital Humanism

Julian Nida-Rümelin: “Digitaler Humanismus”

2020-01-08
Public Lecture
Event

Julian Nida-Rümelin reflects on a historically informed view on and the apocalyptic and enthusiastic approaches to Digital Humanism.

2019

Digital Humanism

Edward A Lee: “The Coevolution of Humans and Machines”

2019-12-08
Public Lecture
Event

In the third lecture in our series, Edward Ashford Lee presents the case for considering digital beings to be living, then offers counterarguments.

Digital Humanism

Gerfried Stocker: “Humanizing Technology Through Arts”

2019-11-20
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

The second lecture in our series asks what kind of digital society we want, how we can get there, and what role the Arts can play in it.

Digital Humanism

Susan J. Winter: “Cui bono? A Sociotechnical View of Smart …

2019-11-06
Public Lecture
Social Responsibility

Kicking off our public lecture series on Digital Humanism, Susan J. Winter (University of Maryland) talks about ethical dilemmas and challenges of smart cities.

Vienna Gödel Lecture

Artificial Intelligence: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

2019-06-04
Public Lecture
Event

How should we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its progress in recent years? Does AI threaten humanity, or will it be a source of beneficial techno…