Symposium “Critical Stances towards AI : For a Critical and Self-Determined Approach to Digital Technology”

Critical Stances towards AI: For a Critical and Self-Determined Approach to Digital Technology

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Joseph Weizenbaum, Technische Universität Berlin, together with the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Freie Universität Berlin, and Deutsches Haus at NYU, hosted the symposium “Critical Stances toward AI: For a Critical and Self-Determined Approach to Digital Technology” in New York City on September 28-29, 2023.

Event Impressions and meeting between Ricarda Opitz, Claudia Oellers (both Weizenbaum Institute), Jan Lüdert and Benedikt Brisch (both DWIH New York):

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The three partners discussed topics the Berlin born computer science pioneer was deeply engaged with: the role of humans in AI, the role algorithmic platforms play for information in digital societies as well as an analysis of hypergiants in the internet ecosystem. Together with the audience, researchers from the Weizenbaum Institute and various North American institutions debated the issue of AI development and usage from both social and environmental perspectives.

The symposium was targeted at alumni of the universities and non university research institutions which are involved in the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society: Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Universität Potsdam (UP), as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).

Detailed information about the event and the program.

Event Information

September 28 to 29, 2023

Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews (corner of University Place), New York, NY 10003.
Organizer(s): Technische Universität Berlin, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutsches Haus at NYU