The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for the DIGHUM lecture series – regular online events that discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism.
Speaker: Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon Libraries, USA
Moderator: Helga Nowotny, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, AT
In February 2024, Columbia University in the US co-hosted a workshop with Mozilla that resulted in a paper “Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models: Proceedings from the Columbia Convening on Openness in Artificial Intelligence.” Using this framework, this talk will offer an update on developments related to openness in AI since February 2024, with an emphasis on the imperative to advance this framework and develop an open technology stack for AI. Such a stack will be important to advance human-centered, responsible, transparent, and participatory AI.This topic is particularly important in the European context, given the EU AI Act and increasing calls for digital sovereignty. Taking a global perspective, the talk will also highlight the difference between sovereignty and agency, particularly as it relates to nations without resources to build their own foundation models.
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 the 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, loss of jobs, and the ongoing monopolisation 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 the topic and speakers. The exact dates will be announced at least two weeks before.
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