Upcoming

• Digital Humanism Summer School 2023
  Sep 19, 2023 Summer School, Join leading experts in informatics, social sciences, and humanities to collaborate on pressing issues of digital politics, economy, and technology.
• Digital Humanism Summit
  Jul 3, 2023 Workshop, The Digital Humanism Initiative comes together to identify possible responses to challenges that AI brings.
• DIGHUM Lecture: Kay Firth-Butterfield
  Jun 27, 2023 Lecture Series,
• Jason Steinhauer: “History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past”
  Jun 13, 2023 Lecture Series, Jason Steinhauer outlines how the web and social media have changed the way we learn and communicate about history.

Past

• Perspectives on Digital Humanism
  Nov 23, 2021 Book, Open Access Book with Essays from Computer Science, Law, and Humanities.
• Alexander Pretschner: “Software Can Do Wrong: On Ethics in Agile Software Engineering”
  May 16, 2023 Lecture Series, Alexander Pretschner talks about ethics in agile software engineering.
• Inauguration of the UNESCO Chair on Digital Humanism
  May 15, 2023 Event, TU Wien Informatics launches the first UNESCO Chair on Digital Humanism to address the ethical, societal, and political challenges of digital technology.
• Helga Nowotny and George Metakides: “Statement of the Digital Humanism Initiative on ChatGPT and a possible new online world”
  Mar 28, 2023 Lecture Series, Following the recent occurrence of ChatGPT, Helga Nowotny and George Metakides will outline a possible new online world.
• Digital Humanism in Vienna
  Mar 15, 2023 Brochure, Brochure “Digital Humanism in Vienna” by the City of Vienna.
• Gary Marcus: “On Chat-GPT”
  Mar 9, 2023 Lecture Series, Gary Marcus talks about Chat-GPT.
• Cory Doctorow: “Seize the Means of Computation”
  Mar 7, 2023 Lecture Series, Cory Doctorow talks about tech giants and a free and fair future with technology.
• Tina Peterson: “Abstracted power and responsibility”
  Feb 21, 2023 Lecture Series, In this interactive talk, Tina Peterson introduces a new concept of responsible technology.
• James A. Landay: “AI For Good Isn't Good Enough: A Call for Human-Centered AI”
  Jan 24, 2023 Lecture Series, James A. Landay talks about the Human-Centered AI.
• Responsible AI in China
  Dec 19, 2022 Discussion Round, Pingjing Yang talks about responsible AI in China.
• Luke Munn: “The Uselessness of AI Ethics”
  Dec 6, 2022 Lecture Series, Luke Munn and Erich Prem discuss about the AI ethics and uselessness of AI guidelines.
• Who Elected Big Tech?
  Nov 25, 2022 Lecture, IWM Digital Humanism Fellow Allison Stanger speaks about technological innovation and power shifts.
• In the Shadow of Big Tech
  Nov 23, 2022 IWM Workshop, IWM Workshop with Allison Stanger, Paul Timmers, George Metakides and Guests.
• Open Societies and Democratic Sustainability in the Shadow of Big Tech
  Nov 22, 2022 IWM Fellowship Lecture, Lecture of the IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Program.
• David Rolnick “Is AI good or bad for the climate? It's complicated”
  Nov 15, 2022 Lecture Series, David Rolnick talks about the AI and its impact on climate.
• Kate Crawford: “Rocks, Flesh, and Rockets: A Political Ecology of AI”
  Oct 18, 2022 Lecture Series, Kate Crawford maps the global impacts of large-scale computation on the environment, personal data, and human labor.
• Digital Humanism Summer School
  Sep 19, 2022 Summer School, Join leading experts in informatics, social sciences, and humanities to collaborate on pressing issues of digital politics, economy, and technology.
• Eric Horvitz: “AI Advances, Responsibilities, and Governance”
  Jun 28, 2022 Lecture Series, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, tells us about the potential costs of AI and corporate responsibilities.
• Edward A. Lee: “Limits of Machines, Limits of Humans”
  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.
• Frances Haugen: “The Facebook Files”
  May 17, 2022 Lecture Series, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will talk about accountability & transparency in Social Media.
• Algorithms. Data. Surveillance – Is There a Way Out?
  May 5, 2022 Panel Discussion, Panelists Marc Rotenberg, Christiane Wendehorst, and Hannes Werthner discuss democracy, digitalization, and ways to take action. Moderation by Josef Broukal.
• Carles Sierra: “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”
  Apr 26, 2022 Lecture Series, Carles Sierra talks about responsible technology and how to counteract social fears of AI.
• David Danks: “AI Ethics as Translational Ethics”
  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.
• Benjamin Gregg: “How Artificial Intelligence May One Day Threaten the Political Capacity of Human Intelligence”
  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.
• Towards a Research and Innovation Roadmap
  Mar 3, 2022 Workshop, How to advance digital technologies towards realizing inclusion and democratic societies. The 4th Workshop on Digital Humanism.
• Melanie Mitchell: “Why AI is Harder Than We Think”
  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.
• Daniel Samaan: “Job Scenarios 2030: How the World of Work has Changed Around the Globe”
  Feb 8, 2022 Lecture Series, Daniel Samaan talks about how the world of work will look like in 2030. Moderation by George Metakides.
• Antonio Casilli: “What is a 'Truly Ethical' Artificial Intelligence? An end-to-end approach to responsible and humane technological systems”
  Jan 25, 2022 Lecture Series, Antonio Casilli talks about an end-to-end approach to responsible and humane technological systems.
• Minxin Pei: “Transition From Labor-intensive to Tech-intensive Surveillance in China”
  Nov 16, 2021 Lecture Series, Minxin Pei talks about the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state.
• Marc Rotenberg: “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?”
  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.
• Ben Shneiderman: “Human-Centered AI: A New Synthesis”
  Oct 12, 2021 Lecture Series, Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.
• Roberto Di Cosmo: “Should we preserve the world's software history, and can we?”
  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.
• Allison Stanger: “Digital Humanism and Democracy in Geopolitical Context”
  Jun 15, 2021 Lecture Series, What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?
• Irina Orssich: “The New EU Proposal for AI Regulation”
  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.
• Moshe Y. Vardi: “Technology Is Driving the Future, but Who Is Steering?”
  May 27, 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, In this year’s Gödel lecture, Moshe Vardi will explain why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society.
• Cristiano Codagnone: “The Platform Economy and Europe: Between Regulation and Digital Geopolitics”
  May 18, 2021 Lecture Series, Cristiano Codagnone explains why platforms are not simply technological corporations but a form of quasi-infrastructure.
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates: “Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task”
  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.
• Ron Roozendaal: “Vaccination Passports – a tool for liberation or the opposite?”
  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?
• Sally Wyatt, Jeanne Lenders, Hinda Haned, Judy Wajcman, and Erin Young: “(Gender) Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanism”
  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.
• Saa Dittoh, Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, and Anna Bon “Digital Society, Social Justice and Academic Education”
  Mar 23, 2021 Lecture Series, This panel focuses on how digital technologies' ethical and social aspects can be handled adequately in academic research.
• Pilar del Castillo, Lokke Moerel, and Yvo Volman: “Preventing Data Colonialism without resorting to protectionism - The European strategy”
  Feb 23, 2021 Lecture Series, This panel discussion will focus on the processing and exploitation of European citizens' data by non-European companies.
• Sunimal Mendis: “Freedom of Expression in the Digital Public Sphere”
  Feb 2, 2021 Lecture Series, This lecture will focus on how social media platforms can shape public discourse by their algorithmic content moderation.
• 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.
• Julian Nida-Rümelin: “Philosophical Foundations of Digital Humanism”
  Dec 15, 2020 Lecture Series, In our next lecture, Julian Nida-Rümelin will develop the main features of what he calls Digital Humanism.
• Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future
  Nov 19, 2020 Workshop, We invite you to our online workshop on Digital Humanism to discuss AI in Europe, education, and resilient sustainable systems.
• Deborah G. Johnson, Guglielmo Tamburrini, and Yi Zeng: “Ethics and IT: How AI is Reshaping our World”
  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.