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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Judith Simon
Event type:
Lecture series
Displayed in timetable as:
RV Taming Machines
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
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Comments/contents:
?"Taming the Machines - Securing Knowledge"
Public Lecture Series of the der Research Group „Ethics in Information Technologies”
Recommender systems and personalisation algorithms, search engines and chatbots, big data and machine learning: digital technologies play an increasingly prominent role in the creation, collection, organisation, and dissemination of information in our digital world. These technologies have the potential to reshape our traditional practices and concepts of knowledge, to transform processes of learning and knowing. For example, personalised recommender systems have complemented, if not replaced, testimony from friends and expert opinion. Students increasingly depend on search engines for factual knowledge in lieu of rote learning, and scientists rely on big data and machine learning for novel insights.
These powerful technologies, however, also can be—and, indeed, have been—misused and abused: fake news and “alternative facts” are spread online via chatbots and trolls; personalisation may lead to filter bubbles and echo chambers; correlations are mistaken as causation in decision-making powered by data analytics. As a result, information technologies and data practices are challenging our basic understanding of 'knowledge' and related concepts such as truth, trust, reliability.
If societies want to ensure that these new technologies and practices are conducive to our knowledge, it is essential to examine more closely these novel knowledge practices, their underlying assumptions and implications. This public lecture series invites internationally renowned scholars to discuss major epistemic questions related to information technologies.
Programme
10.04.2019
Attention Economics and Rage Against the Machine
Prof. Dr. Vincent F. Hendricks
University of Copenhagen
24.04.2019
Ethics and the Internet of Things
Prof. Dr. Irina Shklovski
IT University of Copenhagen
15.05.2019
TBA
05.06.2019
People vs. Algorithms: Data Witchcraft and the Future of Data Activism
Prof. Dr. Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)
Room ESA-J
19.06.2019
Fake News, False Beliefs, and the Fallible Art of Knowledge Maintenance
Prof. Dr. Axel Gelfert
TU Berlin
03.07.2019
Autonomous Systems and Criminal Law – new impulses for the concept of responsibility?
Prof. Dr. Susanne Beck (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Room ESA W 221
Additional examination information:
To obtain credit points for this lecture series, you have to attend the seminar that complements the lecture series!
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