humans and machines

This event will be part of TUHH’s flagship series "Lectures for Future" and marks the beginning of my appointment at TUHH as well as of our new Institute for Ethics in Technology. Prof. Dominic Wilkinson (University of Oxford), Prof. Alena Buyx (Technical University of Munich, Chair of the German Ethics Council) and Dr Andrew Graham (University of Oxford) will contribute to the event.

Programme:

• Opening address by the President and Vice-President of Hamburg University of Technology
• Lecture by Prof. Maximilian Kiener: (TUHH): "Ethics in Technology and the Future of Morality"
• Input by Prof. Dominic Wilkinson (University of Oxford): "AI and the Future of Informed Consent"
• Input by Prof. Alena Buyx (TU Munich, Chair of the German Ethics Council) "Humans and Machines"
• Moderated discussion led by Dr Andrew Graham (University of Oxford).
• Reception and Get-together

Institution

• Institute for Ethics in Technology

Spread the word, on Monday, August 11, 2025, from 12:30-13:10, we will have a guest talk about "NLP for Low-resource African Languages" with Dr. Shamsuddeen Hassen Muhammed. Dr Hassen is a Google DeepMind Academic Fellow and an Advanced Research Fellow at Imperial College London, an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Faculty of Computing, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, and a Visiting Professor at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cameroon and South Africa,
as well as at York St John University.

He was our long time collaborator for Africa NLP and he will present the progress on African low-resource languages NLP.

The talk will be at HCDS meeting room, Science City, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany

If you are unable to come in person, we will also share a zoom meeting.