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Tuesday, June 04th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Ethics in the Age of Generative AI

UHH, Main Building, West Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 221

Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series

This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.

Prof. Dr. Louise Amoore, Durham University, Durham, UK

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, July 09th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Frontier AI Regulation: from Trustworthiness to Sustainability

UHH, Main Building, West Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 221

Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series

This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), D
 
Current AI regulation in the EU and globally focus on trustworthiness and accountability, as seen in the AI Act and AI Liability instruments. Yet, they overlook a critical aspect: environmental sustainability. This talk addresses this gap by examining the ICT sector's significant environmental impact. AI technologies, particularly generative models like GPT-4, contribute substantially to global greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption.
The talk assesses how existing and proposed regulations, including EU environmental laws and the GDPR, can be adapted to prioritize sustainability. It advocates for a comprehensive approach to sustainable AI regulation, beyond mere transparency mechanisms for disclosing AI systems' environmental footprint, as proposed in the EU AI Act. The regulatory toolkit must include co-regulation, sustainability-by-design principles, data usage restrictions, and consumption limits, potentially integrating AI into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. This multidimensional strategy offers a blueprint that can be adapted to other high-emission technologies and infrastructures, such as block chain, the meta-verse, or data centers. Arguably, it is crucial for tackling the twin key transformations of our society: digitization and climate change mitigation.

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, December 02th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Frontier AI Regulation: from Trustworthiness to Sustainability

UHH, Main Building, ESA 1 Ost Raum O221
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have become central to numerous aspects of our lives, and are significantly reshaping them. These include our homes, our workplaces, industries in general, schools and academia, but also government, law enforcement and warfare. While AI technologies present many opportunities, they have also been shown to reinforce existing injustices, to threaten human rights, and to exacerbate the climate crisis. This begs the question: How can we collectively and meaningfully shape the digital society we live in, and who is to decide on the agenda? 
This lecture series invites viewpoints from different relevant disciplines to explore how we can preserve and advance human values through the development and use of AI technologies. Key questions include: How does AI impact our fundamental social, political, and economic structures? What does it mean to lead a meaningful life in the AI age? What design and regulatory decisions should we make to ensure digital transformations are fair and sustainable?  
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
 

Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), DE

Current AI regulation in the EU and globally focus on trustworthiness and accountability, as seen in the AI Act and AI Liability instruments. Yet, they overlook a critical aspect: environmental sustainability. This talk addresses this gap by examining the ICT sector's significant environmental impact. AI technologies, particularly generative models like GPT-4, contribute substantially to global greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption.
The talk assesses how existing and proposed regulations, including EU environmental laws and the GDPR, can be adapted to prioritize sustainability. It advocates for a comprehensive approach to sustainable AI regulation, beyond mere transparency mechanisms for disclosing AI systems' environmental footprint, as proposed in the EU AI Act. The regulatory toolkit must include co-regulation, sustainability-by-design principles, data usage restrictions, and consumption limits, potentially integrating AI into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. This multidimensional strategy offers a blueprint that can be adapted to other high-emission technologies and infrastructures, such as block chain, the meta-verse, or data centers. Arguably, it is crucial for tackling the twin key transformations of our society: digitization and climate change mitigation.

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. God, Golem, and Gadget Worshippers: Meaning of Life in the Digital Age

UHH, Main Building, West Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 221

Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series

This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.

Prof. Dr. Mathias Risse, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Growing Up in the Midst of the AI Goldrush: from Data Scares to Data Scars

UHH, Main Building, West Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 221

Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series

This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.

 Prof. Dr. Andra Siibak, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estland

Present day children’s futures are decided by algorithms predicting their probability of success at school, their suitability for a job position, their likely recidivism or mental health problems. Advances in predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, behavioral-, and biometrics technologies, have started to be aggressively used for monitoring, aggregating, and analyzing children’s data. Such dataveillance happening both in homes, schools, and peer networks has a profound impact not only on children’s preferences, social relations, life chances, rights and privacy but also the "future of human agency - and ultimately, of society and culture" (Mascheroni & Siibak 2021: 169).

Building upon the findings of my different empirical case studies, I will showcase how the popular digital parenting practices and the growing datafication happening in the education sector, could create not only hypothetical data scares but also lead to real data scars in the lives of the young.

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. How Should We Talk about AI Ethics?

UHH, Main Building, West Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 221

Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series

This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.

Vincent C. Müller is AvH Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

It is now frequently observed that there is no proper scope and no proper method in the discipline of AI-ethics. This has become an issue in the development towards maturity of the discipline, e.g. canonical problems, positions, arguments … secure steps forward. We propose a minimal, yet universal view of the field (again Müller 2020). Given this proposal, we will know the scope and the method, and we can appreciate the wide set of contributions.

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Repairing AI for Environmental Justice

UHH, Main Building, West Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Room 221

Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series

This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.

Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, D

Let us imagine that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is broken. Not in the physical sense in which pieces are falling apart and need to be put together; rather, in the metaphorical sense in which there are serious ethical concerns related to the design and development of AI that demand repair. In this talk I will outline a definition of Sustainable AI as an umbrella term to cover two branches with different aims and methods: AI for sustainability vs the sustainability of AI. I will show that AI for sustainability holds great promise but is lacking in one crucial aspect; it fails to account for the environmental impact from the development of AI.
 
Alternatively, the environmental impact of AI training (and tuning) sits at the core of the sustainability of AI, for example measuring carbon emissions and electricity consumption, water and land usage, and regulating the mining of precious minerals. All of these environmental consequences fall on the shoulders of the most marginalized and vulnerable demographics across the globe (e.g. the slave like working conditions in the mining of minerals, the coastal communities susceptible to unpredictable weather conditions). By placing environmental consequences in the centre one is forced to recognize the environmental justice concerns underpinning all AI models. The question then becomes, how can the AI space be repaired to transform current structures and practices that systemically exacerbate environmental justice issues with the consequence of further marginalizing vulnerable groups.

Institutions

  • UHH
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2025 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. The Future of Prediction. Algorithmic Forecast in Science and Society

UHH, Main Building, ESA 1 Ost Raum O221
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have become central to numerous aspects of our lives, and are significantly reshaping them. These include our homes, our workplaces, industries in general, schools and academia, but also government, law enforcement and warfare. While AI technologies present many opportunities, they have also been shown to reinforce existing injustices, to threaten human rights, and to exacerbate the climate crisis. This begs the question: How can we collectively and meaningfully shape the digital society we live in, and who is to decide on the agenda? 
This lecture series invites viewpoints from different relevant disciplines to explore how we can preserve and advance human values through the development and use of AI technologies. Key questions include: How does AI impact our fundamental social, political, and economic structures? What does it mean to lead a meaningful life in the AI age? What design and regulatory decisions should we make to ensure digital transformations are fair and sustainable?  
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
 

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elena Esposito, Universität Bielefeld, DE

Institutions

  • UHH
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Thursday, November 21th, 2024 | 12:15-13:45 p.m

Ringvorlesung: Digital Humanities - Ethische Fragen bei automatischen Sprachverarbeitung und generativer KI

Von-Melle-Park 6, Hörsaal B

Dr. Melanie Andresen, DeepL, Köln

Die Digitalisierung hat mittlerweile auch in den Geisteswissenschaften Einzug gehalten – sowohl in der Forschung als auch in den außeruniversitären Berufsfeldern. Jenseits der Nutzung des Computers zum Schreiben von Texten und zum Surfen im Internet hat sich im Rahmen der so genannten Digital Humanities ein breites Spektrum an Methoden entwickelt, die das traditionelle Handwerkszeug der Geisteswissenschaften mit neuen Möglichkeiten ergänzen.
 
Die Vorlesung bietet einen einführenden Überblick über die digitalen Technologien und Verfahren, die heute zum Einsatz kommen, um Texte zu analysieren, auf digitalen Plattformen zu präsentieren und für die Nachwelt zu archivieren. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Verfahren und Werkzeugen der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften. Neben einer Bestandsaufnahme und der Präsentation von Beispielanwendungen zielt die Vorlesung auf die Reflexion der mit der Digitalisierung einhergehenden Veränderungen des geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungs- und Arbeitsprozesses. Es soll jeweils nach dem methodologischen und konzeptionellen Zugewinn gefragt werden, den das neue Methodenparadigma der Digital Humanities birgt oder bergen könnte.
 
Sitzungen, die in einzelne Grundlagenbereiche der Digital Humanities einführen, wechseln sich mit Berichten aus aktuellen Forschungsprojekten ab.
 
Die Vorlesung richtet sich an alle, die ein Interesse an digitalen Verfahren in textbezogenen Geisteswissenschaften haben. Auch wenn der Schwerpunkt der vorgestellten Projekte in den Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften liegt, können die Methoden grundsätzlich interdisziplinär angewendet werden. Es werden keine Vorkenntnisse der digitalen Methoden vorausgesetzt.

Institutions

  • Institut für Germanistik
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Thursday, November 14th, 2024 | 18:15 - 19:45 p.m.

Ringvorlesung: Gendering Knowledge - Gender und generative KI

Hauptgebäude, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hörsaal C

Geschlecht konstituiert Wissen und Wissen konstituiert Geschlecht. Die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit und Bedingtheit von Gender und Wissen ist allgegenwärtig – sei es in der Sprache, Literatur, Kunst, den Medien, der Geschichtsschreibung, Politik, im Gesundheitswesen, Bildungsbereich oder der Arbeitswelt. Die Ringvorlesung "Gendering Knowledge" versucht, die Strukturierung und Organisation von Wissen in diesen und anderen Bereichen zu erhellen und kritische Bezüge zu gesellschaftlichen (Macht-)Diskursen herauszuarbeiten.
 
In diesem Wintersemester richten wir den Blick auf den Körper und (Prozesse/Phänomene von) Verkörperung in Wechselwirkung mit Geschlecht und Wissen.
 
Uns interessiert:
- Wie schreibt sich Wissen in Körper ein und inwiefern können Körper zu Trägern eines bestimmten Wissens gemacht werden?
- Wie werden Körper semiotisch für Geschlechts- und Sexualitätskonstruktionen eingesetzt? In welchem Verhältnis stehen oder standen die Vielfalt von Körpern und binäre Geschlechtsmodelle?
- Welche Rolle spielt Somatizität (Körperlichkeit) für die (Re-)Produktion von Wissen?
- Welche Bedingungen stellen Räume (öffentlich, privat, urban, rural) an Körper und umgekehrt?
- Welche Vorstellungen und welches Wissens entwickeln die bildenden und performativen Künste von einer Ästhetik des Körpers? Welche Rolle spielen in diesem Zusammenhang Fragment, Bewegung, Vulnerabilität, Idealisierung usw.?
- Inwiefern werden auch Naturwissenschaften wie Biologie, Medizin, Pharmakologie und Anatomie hinsichtlich ihrer Betrachtung des menschlichen Körpers von Wissen über Geschlecht beeinflusst?

Um Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden, haben wir Wissenschaftler:innen aus den Geistes-, Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften eingeladen, um die Trias Körper – Geschlecht – Wissen aus ihrer jeweiligen fachlichen Perspektive genauer zu beleuchten. Neben aktuellen Forschungen der Universität Hamburg ergänzen Gäst:innen die Ringvorlesung. 

Institutions

  • Universität Hamburg

Universität Hamburg
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