DIGHUM lectures: Polis Digitalis with Brando Benifei

Speaker: Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament, Italy

Interviewed by: Jannis Brühl, Teamleiter Team Geld, Arbeit, Tech, Süddeutsche Zeitung

About the Series
The Polis Digitalis talk is a monthly event offering discussions with worldwide digital policy makers. It is typically held on Tuesday afternoons at 17:00 CET.

The world is at a critical turning point as the extremely rapid development digitalization spearheaded by AI constitutes a technological and associated societal and economic transformation which affects and is affected by a (geo)political upheaval – with great potential benefits, but also equally great dangers. The goal of the Polis Digitalis-talks is to bring together policy makers, journalists and academics to discuss the most recent actual or foreseen developments of policy decisions for the digital sphere, reflect on their impact, raise awareness in civil society at large and, when deemed suitable, formulate our own proposals in the spirit of Digital Humanism.

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.

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YouTube
Talk will be live-streamed and recorded via YouTube Archive and Resources of Lecture Series Abstracts, Recordings, and Slides from Previous Talks