Industrial Policy is back – is it?
See Kurt Bayer’s commentary on the issue of Industrial Policy in China, USA, EU and Austria here.
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Does Trump Give Us Still Room for a New Economic Paradigm?
We welcome Kurt Bayer’s Commentary as a befriended website of GSIS. Economist Kurt Bayer served as expert at our Utopia(s) Reloaded talks in 2023. Find here his interview on “How can climate justice be executed?” (https://vimeo.com/896184065). Kurt maintains a blog…
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It is now 89 seconds to midnight
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…
AI between euphoric expectations and dystopian scenarios
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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The speaker Rosa Luxemburg
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…
Herbstfest im Althangrund für Alle
DJ Lambada/GSIS was part of it. [photo: Irena Mostowicz]
Pope Francis on AI
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…
Best poster award for Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger at Quantum Information and Probability conference
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…
Social epistemology studies co-operation
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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Targeted killing with AI – a position paper
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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