Sustainable AI Across Borders, 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)

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.

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.

Talk by Larissa Bolte, M.A.

7 February 2023, 13.00-13:45

Online, as part of the Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture (VEIL) series of the Ethical Innovation Hub at the University of Lübeck.

Bonn, 24 January 2023

Suizidprävention in sozialen Medien mithilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz.
Eine ethische Analyse
(Suicide prevention in social media with the help of artificial intelligence.
An ethical analysis)

Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs

Bonn, 7 December 2022

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 objective of the event is to bring together different research groups, policymakers, practitioners, and grassroots community advocates that are based in Bonn and apply the One Health approach to advancing research and driving action across sectors for improving the health of living organisms and promoting social equality and environmental sustainability.

Dr. Christina Pinsdorf (IWE) has been invited to talk about the concepts of One Health and Bioeconomy from a philosophical perspective.

Bonn, 3rd November 2022 ,13:00 to 18:00 (CET).
Participation is free but registration is requested.

International experts discuss possible and probable futures, and the challenges we face in making these futures desirable. Participants will speak across disciplines to consider ethics, artificial intelligence and resilience among other topics. At each session, a succinct lead presentation will be followed by several specialist commentaries, setting the scene for a substantial, free and open discussion. This is a rare opportunity to engage with globally leading thinkers in the field of futures.

An event organized by the Center for Life Ethics together with the Institute for Science and Ethics and the University of Bonn.
The event will be held in English.

25 October 2022, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, Bonn

The University of Bonn-University of St Andrews Brussels Discussion Series brings together leading experts from both institutions to explore, challenge, and encourage lively debate around some of the most pressing issues facing European and global societies today.

From Bonn, Aimee van Wynsberghe, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bonn will participate in the panel.

17 October 2022, 11:00 CET, Scotland House Brussels.

The beginning of September 2022 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.

The Bonn Sustainable AI Lab team was very excited to travel to Austria for one of the most important festivals for digital art: Ars Electronica. The festival took place from 7-11 September 2022 in Linz, Austria, and focussed on the interlinkages between art, technology and society.

At the festival, the ArtScience Residency’s winner Irakli Sabekia presented his ‘Archive of Spatial Knowledge’, the artwork he created in the framework of the residency with the Sustainable AI Lab.

Aimee van Wynsberghe and Irakli Sabekia participated in the panel “Residency. But How?” and shared their experiences with the residency programme.

Click the links below for more information or a video of the panel.

In May 2022 the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab team travelled to Accra, Ghana, for the workshop “Sustainable AI Across Borders,” which was jointly organised by the lab and the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana, Legon.

“The purpose of this trip was to strengthen the partnership that we have, to share research ideas and to plan for fruitful collaborations in the future,” says Prof. Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe, the lab’s director.

Click the link below for more information as well as photos and a video.

9. June 2022, 17:00 – 19:00

Language: English

Place: Foyer Headquarter Deutsche Telekom, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140, 53113 Bonn (open for everybody) or ONLINE-STREAM.

Speaker: Irakli Sabekia (Artist), Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe (Sustainable AI Lab, University Bonn), Antje Hundhausen (Vice President Brand Experience, Deutsche Telekom)

Moderator: Laura Welzenbach (Head of Ars Electronica Export)

Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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

Research Associates (TV-L E13, 100%)

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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.

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