Stefan Woltran reminds us of the next talk in the DigHum lecture series:

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Topic: “New Humanism in the Time of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI): a Research-Action Project”
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Speaker: Mathieu Guillermin (Lyon Catholic University, France)
Moderator: Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

To participate in the talks via Zoom go to: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/96389928143?pwd=UU5YRkNuRmdoWHV4MFBwMWRCcUErdz09
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The talk will be live streamed and recorded on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/digitalhumanism

The Digital Humanism Lecture Series is organized by the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien and TU Wien’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML) in collaboration with EUDHIT and EURIDICE.
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ABSTRACT “New Humanism in the Time of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI): a Research-Action Project”:

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.

Short Bio of Mathieu Guillermin:

Mathieu Guillermin is associate professor of philosophy and ethics of science and technology at the CONFLUENCE: Sciences et Humanités research unit (EA 1598) of UCLy (Lyon Catholic University). He holds a PhD in Physics and a PhD in Philosophy. One of his main research interests is the question of the articulations between ethics, scientific research and technological developments. He focuses notably upon philosophical and ethical questions raised by new digital technologies (big data, artificial intelligence, robots …). He also coordinates NHNAI international research program focused upon the exploration of the idea of “Humanism” in the time of Neurosciences and AI (https://nhnai.org).

Short Bio of Viola Schiaffonati:

Viola Schiaffonati is associate professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Università di Genova. She has been visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy of the University of California at Berkeley and visiting researcher at the Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology of the Stanford University. Among the other things, Viola Schiaffonati is Director of the CINI National Laboratory on Informatics & Society (IeS), one of the three founding members of Polimi META, the study unit of social sciences and humanities for science and technology, and Associate Editor of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. She has been a member of the European Commission Expert Group on AI and data in education and training as representative of Informatics Europe. Her research interests are in the philosophy of AI and robotics, the epistemology and methodology of experiments in computer engineering and autonomous robotics, the ethical issues of intelligent and autonomous systems.