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Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. How Should We Talk about AI Ethics?
Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series
This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
Vincent C. Müller is AvH Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
It is now frequently observed that there is no proper scope and no proper method in the discipline of AI-ethics. This has become an issue in the development towards maturity of the discipline, e.g. canonical problems, positions, arguments … secure steps forward. We propose a minimal, yet universal view of the field (again Müller 2020). Given this proposal, we will know the scope and the method, and we can appreciate the wide set of contributions.
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. How to Achieve Digital Sovereignty in Europe?
Prof. Dr. José van Dijck (Utrecht University, NL)
The growing dominance of two global platform ecosystems has left European countries to rely on American and Chinese digitale infrastructures. This dependency is not just affecting markets and labor relations, but is also transforming social practices, and affecting democracies. While two large ecosystems fight for information control in the global online world, the European perspective on digital infrastructures is focused on regulation rather than on building alternatives. With emerging technologies such as generative AI (ChatGPT, Bard) and geopolitical changes, the infrastructural perspective becomes more poignant. How can Europe achieve sovereignty in the digital world?
This lecture takes up two questions. First, what public values are fundamental to Europe’s platform societies? Values such as privacy, security, transparency, equality, public trust, and (institutional, professional) autonomy are important principles upon which the design of platform architectures should be based. Second, what are the responsibilities of companies, governments, and citizens in building an alternative, sustainable platform ecosystem based on those public values?
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Implicit Knowledge in Human-Machine Relationships. A Philosophical Investigation
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Misinformation
For better or worse, the revolutionary potential of AI has reached public consciousness, with a growing recognition of the ways that AI might change how we live and work together. Indeed, the fabric of society is already changing in front of our very eyes, with powerful profiteers of AI rallying behind its supposed inevitability. The AI revolution is afoot and it seems as if there is nothing that we can do about it. However, Donald Trump’s emerging alliance with Silicon Valley’s “Magnificent Seven” provides a potent reason for pause and for sustained reflection on the path we are collectively treading.
To discuss how AI, like any other technology, is part of a societal process of struggle, negotiation, and cooperation, this lecture series brings together experts from philosophy, law, and cognitive science. How are technologies like AI grounded in social processes of knowledge production, design, and innovation? What is the environmental impact of AI systems and what ecological responsibilities fall to providers, politicians, and users? What is the human rights impact of AI technologies deployed in military and security contexts? And what, to speak with Nietzsche, renders AI ‘all too human’ after all?
Join us at our “Taming the Machine” lecture series this summer term to explore with our distinguished guests these and other related questions. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Repairing AI for Environmental Justice
Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bonn in Germany. Aimee is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics and the Bonn Sustainable AI lab. She is co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI. In each of her roles, Aimee works to uncover the ethical risks associated with emerging robotics and AI. Aimee’s current research, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, brings attention to the sustainability of AI by studying the hidden environmental costs of developing and using AI.
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Repairing AI for Environmental Justice
Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series
This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, D
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Risk Ethics and Big Tech Business
Prof. Dr. Sven Ove Hansson (Uppsala University, SE)
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Institutions- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. The Future of Prediction. Algorithmic Forecast in Science and Society
This lecture series invites viewpoints from different relevant disciplines to explore how we can preserve and advance human values through the development and use of AI technologies. Key questions include: How does AI impact our fundamental social, political, and economic structures? What does it mean to lead a meaningful life in the AI age? What design and regulatory decisions should we make to ensure digital transformations are fair and sustainable?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elena Esposito, Universität Bielefeld, DE
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. What, if anything, are convivial technologies?
Prof. Dr. Darian Meacham (Maastricht University, NL)
This talk will focus on how this distinction between convivial and monopolistic (or non-convivial) technologies can support a critical phenomenology of technology. I will argue that Gorz attempts to do just this, but that his development of the “convivial – un-convivial” distinction in terms of a broader account of “autonomy” vs “heteronomy” would benefit from a more phenomenologically grounded account of autonomy. I will pose (and try to address) the question of whether a more embodied account of autonomy, such as developed within the context of enactive approaches to cognition would serve such an aim.
A third step will be to ask if and how an enactively enriched notion of autonomy, when situated within the critique of technology and economic rationality, can contribute to the development of programmes for “concrete utopias”.
Institutions
- UHH
Ringvorlesung: Digital Humanities - Ethische Fragen bei automatischen Sprachverarbeitung und generativer KI
Dr. Melanie Andresen, DeepL, Köln
Die Digitalisierung hat mittlerweile auch in den Geisteswissenschaften Einzug gehalten – sowohl in der Forschung als auch in den außeruniversitären Berufsfeldern. Jenseits der Nutzung des Computers zum Schreiben von Texten und zum Surfen im Internet hat sich im Rahmen der so genannten Digital Humanities ein breites Spektrum an Methoden entwickelt, die das traditionelle Handwerkszeug der Geisteswissenschaften mit neuen Möglichkeiten ergänzen.
Die Vorlesung bietet einen einführenden Überblick über die digitalen Technologien und Verfahren, die heute zum Einsatz kommen, um Texte zu analysieren, auf digitalen Plattformen zu präsentieren und für die Nachwelt zu archivieren. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Verfahren und Werkzeugen der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften. Neben einer Bestandsaufnahme und der Präsentation von Beispielanwendungen zielt die Vorlesung auf die Reflexion der mit der Digitalisierung einhergehenden Veränderungen des geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungs- und Arbeitsprozesses. Es soll jeweils nach dem methodologischen und konzeptionellen Zugewinn gefragt werden, den das neue Methodenparadigma der Digital Humanities birgt oder bergen könnte.
Sitzungen, die in einzelne Grundlagenbereiche der Digital Humanities einführen, wechseln sich mit Berichten aus aktuellen Forschungsprojekten ab.
Die Vorlesung richtet sich an alle, die ein Interesse an digitalen Verfahren in textbezogenen Geisteswissenschaften haben. Auch wenn der Schwerpunkt der vorgestellten Projekte in den Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften liegt, können die Methoden grundsätzlich interdisziplinär angewendet werden. Es werden keine Vorkenntnisse der digitalen Methoden vorausgesetzt.
Institutions
- Institut für Germanistik
Ringvorlesung: Gendering Knowledge - Gender und generative KI
Geschlecht konstituiert Wissen und Wissen konstituiert Geschlecht. Die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit und Bedingtheit von Gender und Wissen ist allgegenwärtig – sei es in der Sprache, Literatur, Kunst, den Medien, der Geschichtsschreibung, Politik, im Gesundheitswesen, Bildungsbereich oder der Arbeitswelt. Die Ringvorlesung "Gendering Knowledge" versucht, die Strukturierung und Organisation von Wissen in diesen und anderen Bereichen zu erhellen und kritische Bezüge zu gesellschaftlichen (Macht-)Diskursen herauszuarbeiten.
In diesem Wintersemester richten wir den Blick auf den Körper und (Prozesse/Phänomene von) Verkörperung in Wechselwirkung mit Geschlecht und Wissen.
Uns interessiert:
- Wie schreibt sich Wissen in Körper ein und inwiefern können Körper zu Trägern eines bestimmten Wissens gemacht werden?
- Wie werden Körper semiotisch für Geschlechts- und Sexualitätskonstruktionen eingesetzt? In welchem Verhältnis stehen oder standen die Vielfalt von Körpern und binäre Geschlechtsmodelle?
- Welche Rolle spielt Somatizität (Körperlichkeit) für die (Re-)Produktion von Wissen?
- Welche Bedingungen stellen Räume (öffentlich, privat, urban, rural) an Körper und umgekehrt?
- Welche Vorstellungen und welches Wissens entwickeln die bildenden und performativen Künste von einer Ästhetik des Körpers? Welche Rolle spielen in diesem Zusammenhang Fragment, Bewegung, Vulnerabilität, Idealisierung usw.?
- Inwiefern werden auch Naturwissenschaften wie Biologie, Medizin, Pharmakologie und Anatomie hinsichtlich ihrer Betrachtung des menschlichen Körpers von Wissen über Geschlecht beeinflusst?
Um Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden, haben wir Wissenschaftler:innen aus den Geistes-, Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften eingeladen, um die Trias Körper – Geschlecht – Wissen aus ihrer jeweiligen fachlichen Perspektive genauer zu beleuchten. Neben aktuellen Forschungen der Universität Hamburg ergänzen Gäst:innen die Ringvorlesung.
Institutions
- Universität Hamburg
Universität Hamburg
Adeline Scharfenberg