The initiative DIGHUM lectures started with regular online events to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism. The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for DIGHUM lecture series.
Panelists: Kai Zenner (Head of office to MEP Axel Voss), George Metakides (Digital Enlightenment Forum),
Moderator: Hannes Werthner (TU Wien)
After 37 hours of negotiation the European Commission, the Parliament and the member states agreed on the EU AI Act (details of the final wording still need to be done). Particularly controversial issues were the regulation of foundation models (LLMs) and the use of AI for facial recognition in public spaces. In both cases an agreement could be found. Topics of our discussion will be both, technical details of the final outcome and also the political process that led to this result.
About the Series
A roughly bi-weekly seminar offers presentations and panels from worldwide thought leaders. It is typically held on Tuesday afternoons at 17:00 CET.
The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for DigHum Lecture series.
Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationship between man and machine. It acknowledges the potential of Informatics and IT. At the same time, it points to related apparent threats such as privacy violations, ethical concerns with AI, automation, and loss of jobs, and the ongoing monopolization on the Web.
For this reason, a new initiative — DIGHUM lectures — started with regular online events to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism.
We will have one or more speakers on a specific topic followed by a discussion, or panel discussions, depending on topic and speakers. The exact dates will be announced at least two weeks before.
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