Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE)

Talk by Larissa Bolte, 23 September 2023, Bonn

Within this keynote of the first "Bonner Digitalfabrik" Larissa Bolte will also present the work of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab.

Talk by Dr Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, 22 September 2023, Berlin

The talk will focus on the use of AI in healthcare settings through an environmental-social lens. It will entail a call to enlarge the current bioethical approaches, with a local focus, to a global bioethics approach and will ask the question whose health we are actually talking about when we speak of using AI in healthcare settings.

Talk by Sophia Falk, 19 September 2023

Sophia Falk was invited to speak at the 9th Annual Public Policy Conference (APPC) "Green and Digital: Managing the Twin Transition toward Sustainable Development", organized by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies. 

From 30th May to 1st June 2023, the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab organized its second conference dedicated to the topic of Sustainable AI with the theme Sustainable AI Across Borders.

All presentations in the main hall were recorded and will be published successively on our YouTube channel every Tuesday at noon.

A written review with many conference photos can be found here.

• Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, Director Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE), University of Bonn
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Hoch, Rector University of Bonn
• Dr. Ursula Sautter, Deputy Mayor of Bonn

On the 15th till the 16th of June 2023, the IWE will welcome Prof. Dr. Andrew Feenberg (Simon Faser University, Canada) to give a public lecture and a workshop.

The public lecture (15th of June) is open for everyone. The workshop (16th of June) is open to all academic researchers of the University of Bonn, with priority to PhD students. Registration and more information via bolte@uni-bonn.de.

30 May - 1 June 2023 in Bonn

Keynote Speaker:

• Prof. Dr. Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh)
• Prof. Dr. Caesar Atuire (University of Ghana)
• Prof. Dr. Benedetta Brevini (University of Sydney and London School of Economics )
• Prof. Dr. Ulises Mejias (SUNY Oswego College)

The Sustainable AI Lab hosts an interdisciplinary and interactive discussion exploring the multidimensionality of the relationship between AI and sustainability for different communities, both at the global and local levels.

The event will take place as part of the Many Worlds of AI Conference in Cambridge, UK (24.4.-28.4.23) at 10:30 on 28 April 2023.

The Sustainable AI Lab hosted an interdisciplinary and interactive discussion exploring the ways AI is re-shaping common goods, such as public space and state-society relations.

The discussion took place at COP 27 on 15 November 2022.

The beginning of September saw the first ever G7 Global Inclusion Summit in Berlin, hosted by the Federal Government Commissioner for Matters relating to Persons with Disabilities. The aim of the summit was to work together to enable more participation for people with disabilities in the G7 countries and to tackle global challenges together, also from the perspective of inclusion.

Prof. van Wynsberghe was invited to give a keynote on the impact of artificial intelligence on persons with disabilities. She highlighted how disability studies and scholars are largely excluded from the AI bias debate although the use of AI often exacerbates the marginalisation of persons with disabilities.

Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and its sponsor, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

• More information about Aimee van Wynsberghe and the professorship
• Promo video about the professorship (YouTube)

The Sustainable AI Lab is a space for excellent researchers from different fields to work, collaborate, and brainstorm about the environmental, social, and economic costs of designing, developing, and using AI across society.

A short clip of the lab launch is available on YouTube.

Stiftung Mercator awards €3.8 Million to the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge
 
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society as algorithms increasingly impact access to jobs and insurance, justice, medical treatments, as well as our daily interactions with friends and family. As these technologies race ahead, we are starting to see unintended social consequences: algorithms that promote everything from racial bias in healthcare to the misinformation eroding faith in democracies. To ensure AI supports core human values, the German philanthropic foundation Stiftung Mercator has awarded a €3.8 million grant to a collaboration between the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge.

Click here for more information.