Upcoming

• Theorizing Regulatory Data Infrastructure
  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.
• Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
  Jun 11, 2024 Lecture Series, Gordon Burtch explains the impact of LLMs on online knowledge communities.
• Wessel Reijers: “Civic Virtue and Digital Technology”
  Jun 4, 2024 Lecture Series, Wessel Reijers will talk about virtue ethics and technology, advocating for a new direction of research into civic virtue.

Past

• Digital Humanism @ UNU Macau AI Conference 2024
  Apr 24, 2024 Conference,
• Introduction to Digital Humanism
  Nov 9, 2023 Book, Open access book discussing Digital Humanism in contexts such as AI, platform power, surveillance, democracy, and technology ethics.
• Update on the EU AI Act
  Jan 31, 2024 Public Statement, Latest news about the EU AI Act.
• Marc Rotenberg: “AI Governance: An Abundance of Norms”
  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.
• Virgilio Almeida: “Algorithmic Institutionalism”
  Mar 19, 2024 Lecture Series, Virgilio Almeida introduces a new concept viewing algorithms as emerging institutions in modern societies.
• Digital Humanism: On Digitalization and “Artificial” Intelligence
  Mar 18, 2024 Talk, Hannes Werthner from the Digital Humanism Initiative will give a talk on digitalization, artificial intelligence, and digital humanism.
• AI in the Super Election Year 2024 & The EU Digital Services Act
  Mar 11, 2024 Event, UNESCO Co-Chair Julia Neidhardt participates in two panel discussions in Vienna.
• Rodrigo Ferreira, Dympna O'Sullivan, Viola Schiaffonati, Bobby Schnabel: “Educating future computer professionals to ethical and social impacts of digital technologies”
  Mar 5, 2024 Lecture Series, Panel discussion about the challenges in shaping new approaches and methods for educating computer professionals.
• America's Underground Empire and the Economic Security State
  Feb 27, 2024 Lecture Series, Talk by Henry Farrell about geopolitics, national security, and economics.
• Daron Acemoğlu: “Can we have pro-human AI?”
  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.
• Principles of digital humanism: A critical post-humanist view
  Jan 26, 2024 Paper, Reflections on digital humanism by Erich Prem.
• Thomas Lohninger: “Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of Europe's ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure”
  Jan 23, 2024 Lecture Series, Thomas Lohninger will talk about the Digital Identity Systems.
• U.S.–Austria Citizen Dialogue: AI’s Impact on Democracy
  Jan 16, 2024 Public Talk, 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.
• UNESCO Chair
  May 15, 2023 UNESCO, UNESCO Awards Chair on Digital Humanism.
• Global Governance of AI – on the Interim Report of the UN AI Advisory Body
  Jan 9, 2024 Lecture Series, Virginia Dignum will talk about the interim report of the UN Advisory Board on AI.
• The EU AI Act: A Success Story
  Dec 19, 2023 Lecture Series, Panel discussion about the state of the AI act with Kai Zenner and George Metakides.
• Mei Lin Fung, Gianclaudio Malgieri, and Joseph Sifakis: “AI: Competition or Cooperation Between US and China... And What About Europe and Other Parts of the World”
  Dec 12, 2023 Lecture Series, Join the panel discussion with experts on AI and geopolitics.
• Perspectives on Digital Humanism
  Nov 23, 2021 Book, Open Access Book with Essays from Computer Science, Law, and Humanities.
• Anu Bradford: “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology”
  Nov 21, 2023 Lecture Series, DIGHUM lecture with Anu Bradford.
• Can Machines Save the World?
  Nov 16, 2023 Conference, The Digital Humanism Fellowship Conference
• Democracy in the Digital Era
  Nov 6, 2023 Lecture, Guest professorship lecture by George Metakides.
• Rainer Mühlhoff: “Predictive Privacy, or the Risk of Secondary Use of Trained ML Models”
  Oct 17, 2023 Lecture Series, Rainer Mühlhoff explains the risks of secondary use of ML models regarding the privacy.
• European University Alliances: A New Space for Digital Humanism?
  Sep 26, 2023 Event, Perspectives of action of European universities for education and research.
• Cybernetic Socialists. Computer and Revolution in Allende's Chile
  Sep 7, 2023 Event, Chile's cybernetic dream of justice in early 70s.
• Digital Humanism Summer School 2023
  Sep 4, 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.
• Kay Firth-Butterfield: “Why does AI need to be Trustworthy and the axis of power between Big Tech and society”
  Jun 27, 2023 Lecture Series, Kay Firth-Butterfield talks about Responsible Generative AI and impact of AI on the power structures.
• 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.
• 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.