Our Member Peter Fleissner was awarded the Heinz-von-Förster Prize by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kybernetik (GfK) in a commonon session with Klasse der Naturwissenschaften and Klasse der Technikwissenschaften of Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) on 11 April 2024. The…
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Hannes Werthner from the Digital Humanism Initiative with an assessment of the EU AI Act agreement (see here about the public statement): These have been 37 good hours for the EU AI Act and the (digital) world. Many from civil…
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Hannes Werthner from the Digital Humanism Initiative writes: […] the long-discussed EU AI Act to regulate Artificial Intelligence using a risk-based approach is currently in the so-called trilogue process between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the 27 Member…
The annual Institute activities report has been published. You find it on our research page here.
Mark was an extreme scientist. He has written more than thousand publications in different fields of science, has held many positions and was not afraid to take on work. When he joined our institute, he did not want to become…
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Under that title – in short: “CollabEcon” – our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos is working on a project supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. The objective is to explore the potental of social as well as technological innovation…
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Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos has published a book:
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
This truth was spoken out by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his opening day remarks at COP 27 in Egypt. The photo above, taken at the closing plenary sessionon 20 November 2022, gives an impression of where the outcome of…
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“Responsibility to protect” (R2P) was introduced to justify “humanitarian interventions”. In view of the age of global challenges, Wolfgang Hofkirchner proposes a new concept: the responsibility to protect all of humanity from annihilism. Annihilism is the explicit justification or trivialisation…
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