Archive and Resources
Abstracts, recordings, slides, and detailed information from the previous talks of lecture series.
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Dec 2, 2025 Lecture Series, DIGHUM lecture with Annabelle Gawer.
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Nov 25, 2025 Lecture Series, Marc Rotenberg will not only speak about red lines, but also with regard to the last developments in Brussels ("Digital Omnibus" package, postponing of the AI act, weakening of the GDPR) on “Simplification, or a roll-back of core digital rights”.
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Oct 21, 2025 Lecture Series, DIGHUM Lecture with Jaron Lanier.
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Oct 7, 2025 Lecture Series, DIGHUM Lecture with Mathieu Guillermin.
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Sep 30, 2025 Lecture Series, DIGHUM Lecture with Jonathan Haidt.
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Sep 9, 2025 Lecture Series, DIGHUM Lecture with Alexander Pretschner.
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Jun 24, 2025 Lecture Series, Marleen Huysman presents insights into the tangible ways in which work is evolving as AI is integrated into organizational contexts.
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Jun 17, 2025 Lecture Series, Rostam J. Neuwirth discusses developments in AI regulation and the implications for global governance frameworks.
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May 13, 2025 Lecture Series, DIGHUM Lecture with Christof Tschohl.
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Apr 8, 2025 Lecture Series, Hans Akkermans explores the shifting identity and role of computer science in geopolitical power struggles, emphasizing the need to prevent digital colonization.
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Apr 1, 2025 Lecture Series, Panel discussion with Hans Akkermans, George Metakides, Marc Rotenberg, moderated by Christiane Wendehorst.
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Mar 18, 2025 Lecture Series, Simon Parsons will talk about ways AI can help to make the food supply more sustainable.
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Feb 25, 2025 Lecture Series, Join the next DIGHUM Lecture to explore the implications of DeepSeek for AI technology, economics, and geopolitics.
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Feb 4, 2025 Lecture Series, Misinformation and social media from a historical perspective.
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Nov 26, 2024 Lecture Series, We need to avoid fatalism and defeatism. The theme should be next steps.
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Oct 22, 2024 Lecture Series, Dame Wendy Hall will present the UN Report on a global framework for AI oversight, discussing its seven recommendations to govern AI and protect human rights.
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Jun 25, 2024 Lecture Series, Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan and Andreas Bilgeri talk about autonomous weapons and discuss the possible ways to regulation.
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Jun 11, 2024 Lecture Series, Gordon Burtch explains the impact of LLMs on online knowledge communities.
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Jun 4, 2024 Lecture Series, Wessel Reijers will talk about virtue ethics and technology, advocating for a new direction of research into civic virtue.
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May 14, 2024 Lecture Series, Stefania Milan introduces the concept of regulary data infrastructure and discusses its impact on the balance of power in many aspects.
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Apr 16, 2024 Lecture Series, Marc Rotenberg will assess AI governance's current state and future challenges, focusing on implementation and harmonization of global norms.
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Mar 19, 2024 Lecture Series, Virgilio Almeida introduces a new concept viewing algorithms as emerging institutions in modern societies.
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Mar 5, 2024 Lecture Series, Panel discussion about the challenges in shaping new approaches and methods for educating computer professionals.
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Feb 27, 2024 Lecture Series, Talk by Henry Farrell about geopolitics, national security, and economics.
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Feb 13, 2024 Lecture Series, Daron Acemoğlu discusses how generative AI can be a force for good or evil, depending on the choices we make as a society.
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Jan 23, 2024 Lecture Series, Thomas Lohninger will talk about the Digital Identity Systems.
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Jan 9, 2024 Lecture Series, Virginia Dignum will talk about the interim report of the UN Advisory Board on AI.
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Dec 19, 2023 Lecture Series, Panel discussion about the state of the AI act with Kai Zenner and George Metakides.
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Dec 12, 2023 Lecture Series, Join the panel discussion with experts on AI and geopolitics.
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Nov 21, 2023 Lecture Series, DIGHUM lecture with Anu Bradford.
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Oct 17, 2023 Lecture Series, Rainer Mühlhoff explains the risks of secondary use of ML models regarding the privacy.
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Jun 27, 2023 Lecture Series, Kay Firth-Butterfield talks about Responsible Generative AI and impact of AI on the power structures.
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Jun 13, 2023 Lecture Series, Jason Steinhauer outlines how the web and social media have changed the way we learn and communicate about history.
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May 16, 2023 Lecture Series, Alexander Pretschner talks about ethics in agile software engineering.
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Mar 28, 2023 Lecture Series, Following the recent occurrence of ChatGPT, Helga Nowotny and George Metakides will outline a possible new online world.
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Mar 9, 2023 Lecture Series, Gary Marcus talks about Chat-GPT.
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Mar 7, 2023 Lecture Series, Cory Doctorow talks about tech giants and a free and fair future with technology.
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Feb 21, 2023 Lecture Series, In this interactive talk, Tina Peterson introduces a new concept of responsible technology.
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Jan 24, 2023 Lecture Series, James A. Landay talks about the Human-Centered AI.
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Dec 6, 2022 Lecture Series, Luke Munn and Erich Prem discuss about the AI ethics and uselessness of AI guidelines.
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Nov 15, 2022 Lecture Series, David Rolnick talks about the AI and its impact on climate.
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Oct 18, 2022 Lecture Series, Kate Crawford maps the global impacts of large-scale computation on the environment, personal data, and human labor.
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Jun 28, 2022 Lecture Series, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, tells us about the potential costs of AI and corporate responsibilities.
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May 24, 2022 Lecture Series, Edward A. Lee, distinguished computer scientist and expert on societal implications of technology, talks about the limits of explainable AI.
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May 17, 2022 Lecture Series, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will talk about accountability & transparency in Social Media.
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Apr 26, 2022 Lecture Series, Carles Sierra talks about responsible technology and how to counteract social fears of AI.
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Apr 5, 2022 Lecture Series, David Danks talks about the ethical implications of AI and how we can create ethics specific to AI design, development, and deployment.
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Mar 29, 2022 Lecture Series, Benjamin Gregg talks about how some forms of artificial intelligence may one day threaten the political capacity of human intelligence.
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Feb 22, 2022 Lecture Series, Melanie Mitchell talks about why the development of long-promised AI tech has turned out to be much harder than many people expected.
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Feb 8, 2022 Lecture Series, Daniel Samaan talks about how the world of work will look like in 2030. Moderation by George Metakides.
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Jan 25, 2022 Lecture Series, Antonio Casilli talks about an end-to-end approach to responsible and humane technological systems.
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Nov 16, 2021 Lecture Series, Minxin Pei talks about the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state.
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Nov 9, 2021 Lecture Series, Marc Rotenberg talks about how effectively new policy frameworks address AI-related challenges in the areas of human rights and democratic values.
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Oct 12, 2021 Lecture Series, Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.
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Jun 29, 2021 Lecture Series, Roberto Di Cosmo (INRIA, France) and Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) discuss the role of software in cultural heritage.
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Jun 15, 2021 Lecture Series, What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?
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Jun 8, 2021 Lecture Series, Irina Orssich (European Commission) aims at contributing to the public debate of how AI should be regulated in the future.
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May 18, 2021 Lecture Series, Cristiano Codagnone explains why platforms are not simply technological corporations but a form of quasi-infrastructure.
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May 4, 2021 Lecture Series, Different biases affect all of us on the Web. Ricardo Baeza-Yates explains how we can become aware of them and safeguard a concept of ethics in AI.
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Apr 20, 2021 Lecture Series, How can apps like the “Green Passport” be made reliable and privacy-preserving? And can they pave the way back to normality?
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Apr 13, 2021 Lecture Series, This panel focuses on how different voices and interests can be included in the development and application of digital technologies.
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Mar 23, 2021 Lecture Series, This panel focuses on how digital technologies' ethical and social aspects can be handled adequately in academic research.
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Feb 23, 2021 Lecture Series, This panel discussion will focus on the processing and exploitation of European citizens' data by non-European companies.
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Feb 2, 2021 Lecture Series, This lecture will focus on how social media platforms can shape public discourse by their algorithmic content moderation.
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June Lowery-Kingston, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, and Michael Veale : “Digital Superpowers and Geopolitics”Jan 26, 2021 Lecture Series, This panel will focus on the modern colonial powers in cyberspace - global concerns controlling digital platforms and social networks.
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Dec 15, 2020 Lecture Series, In our next lecture, Julian Nida-Rümelin will develop the main features of what he calls Digital Humanism.
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Nov 3, 2020 Lecture Series, This panel discussion, part of our DIGHUM lecture series, will deal with the ethical implications and global challenges of AI.
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Oct 20, 2020 Lecture Series, Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism - this time with Elissa M. Redmiles from Microsoft Research.
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Oct 6, 2020 Lecture Series, Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, where international experts discuss digital sovereignty.
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Sep 22, 2020 Lecture Series, Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, held by Harvard’s Barbara J. Grosz.
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Sep 8, 2020 Lecture Series, Join our lecture series with Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley presenting his views on this crucial issue.
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Alfonso Fuggetta and James Larus: “Corona Contact Tracing – the Role of Governments and Tech Giants”Jul 14, 2020 Lecture Series, Join Alfonso Fuggetta and James Larus discussing this crucial issue in our lecture series. Moderated by Jeff Kramer.
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Jun 9, 2020 Lecture Series, Following workshops and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to our online lectures, where we discuss different aspects of this topic.