Will AI ever be able to realize what is relevant?
This is the title of the next brown bag research talk of the Future Foundation. Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff writes:
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What is the real impact of digitalisation on environmental sustainability? (2)
Under this title the Future Foundation held the first lunchtime talk, as announced here. Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff writes:
What is the real impact of IT and AI on the environment?
On 29 September 2025 the Future Foundation was presented to the public (https://gsis.at/2025/09/03/10-regeln-fur-die-digitale-welt/). Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Board Member of the Future Foundation, announces a follow-up series of talks: From time to time we will offer a virtual lunch-time talk on an…
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“Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
Rainer Rehak from Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung informs about a call for papers for a Special Issue of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society next year. Submission deadline 15 November 2025: In light of the recent…
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Democracy in the Digital Age
Christian Fuchs invites to the following webinar: Webinar on Democracy in the Digital Age: Foundations of Digital Democracy AnalysisOrganised by the Horizon Europe Project INNOVADETuesday, October 21, 15:00 CET In this webinar, the EU research project INNOVADE: INNOVAtive DEmocracy through…
10 Regeln für die Digitale Welt
Armin Grunwald, Leiter des Instituts für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS) am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), lädt im Namen des Vorstands der neu gegründeten Future Foundation zur Vorstellung dieser Initiative ein. Er schreibt in der Mailingliste des Netzwerks TA (NTA):…
World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Christian Fuchs published a new book, wrapping up the topics of war, capitalism, digitalisation, globalisation, political economy, peace and socialism. This book is open access. This is an excellent, wide-ranging account of thinking about war in the context of new…
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Social Information Gatherings 2025
On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
Digital Humanism for a techno-eco-social transformation of global society
The GSIS Institute will host the annual conference of the German Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF) from 21 to 23 November 2025 at “Alte Mensa”, Kulturzentrum 4lthangrund für Alle, Vienna, where GSIS held the “Utopia(s) Reloaded” talks…
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AI generating new habits. Critical reflections
Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technologies A hybrid symposium organised by Raffaela Giovagnoli, Irena Mostowicz and Tomáš Sigmund in the framework of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) biennial Summit 2025. It will take place in 4lthangrund, “Alte…
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