Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and former Manhattan Project scientists, established the Doomsday Clock. Every year since then the state of the world had been assessed. Setting the minute…
The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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Francesca Vidal, our friend from Schwerpunkt Rhetorik at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Landau, reminded us of a lecture by her in which she discussed the rhetorical side of Rosa Luxemberg. This may be of interest in the context…
DJ Lambada/GSIS was part of it. [photo: Irena Mostowicz]
When Pope Francis attended the G7 summit last month, he addressed the assembled country leaders with a speech on Artificial Intelligence, titled “An exciting and fearsome tool”, “concerning the effects of artificial intelligence on the future of humanity” as he…
GSIS Co-Director Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger received the 1st Prize of the Best Poster Award at this year’s Linnæus University‘s international conference on Quantum Information and Probability: from foundations to engineering (QIP24) in Växjö (Sweden). Her topic was dedicated to the memory…
During the stay of Kang Ouyang, Philosopher at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) School of Philosophy in Wuhan, China, in Austria, where he was invited to four events of our Utopia(s) Conversations about a perspective from China on…
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Our befriended organisation FifF (Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility) drafted together with AK gegen bewaffnete Drohnen and Informationsstelle Militarisierung a position paper in which they warn against lowering the inhibition threshold through the use of AI. In…
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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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