DIGHUM lectures: Who Owns the Future?

Speaker: Jaron Lanier, Microsoft
Moderator: Sarah Kriesche, Ö1, Austria
Welcome Address: Daniel Löcker, City of Vienna Municipal Administration

NHNAI is a research action project coordinated by Lyon Catholic University (UCLy) under the aegis of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. With a consortium of thirteen partners on five continents, NHNAI aims to harness the resources of partner institutions to strengthen the ethical orientation of all stakeholders, through collective exploration of what it means to be human in the age of AI and neuroscience. During this lecture, I’ll outline the project’s main philosophical orientations, as well as its organizational modalities, and I’ll propose an overview of its results.

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.

Participate via Zoom

Zoom | meeting: 9638 9928 143, password: 0dzqxqiy

Participate VIA YouTube

Talk will be live-streamed and recorded via YouTube

Archive and Resources of Lecture Series

Abstracts, Recordings, and Slides from Previous Talks