Archive and Resources
Abstracts, recordings, slides, and detailed information from the previous talks of lecture series.
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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.
