Taming the Machines
Discussing Ethics and Information Technologies
Powered by algorithms, music and video streaming platforms can offer us a unique personalized entertainment experience. Robots can replace humans to complete tedious and dangerous tasks. Big data analytics has become a powerful tool for scientific research. Yet, the destructive potential of information technologies should not be overlooked: software has been shown to be discriminatory, people were killed in accidents involving self-driving cars, and the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica showed that social media platforms can be exploited to spread fake news and disrupt democracy. It is therefore imperative to critically reflect upon the social, ethical, and political dimensions of information technologies. This public lecture series invites internationally renowned scholars to explore and discuss promises and perils of Information technologies for our society.
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14.11.2018
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Regulated Data - Regulated Activism? Digital Activism in the GDPR Era
Prof. Dr. Payal Arora
Erasmus University Rotterdam/Catalyst Lab
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21.11.2018
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Are Machines Better Judges?
Prof. Dr. Katharina Anna Zweig
TU Kaiserslautern
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| 12.12.2018 |
Love, Sex and Power: The Rise of the Machines and the Arts of Being Human
Prof. Dr. Charles Ess
University of Oslo
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18.12.2018
Tuesday
Hörsaal A
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Rethinking the Ethics of Communication* [lecture2go]
(Second Christmas Lecture of the Politics, Economics and Philosophy Master)
Prof. Dr. Onora O'Neill
University of Cambridge
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| 09.01.2019 |
The Ethics of Law and the Laws of Ethics
Prof. Dr. Mireille Hildebrandt
Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Radboud University Nijmegen
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| 23.01.2019 |
Soft Ethics, Hard Ethics, and the Governance of the Digital* [lecture2go]
Prof. Dr. Luciano Floridi
University of Oxford/The Alan Turing Institute
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* in Co-operation with the Public Lecture Series „Reason, Reflection & Responsibility“ of Philosophisches Seminar
Wednesday, 18:00-20:00
Main Campus, Hörsaal B
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
programme [pdf]
site plans:
lecture halls at Edmund-Siemers Allee 1: ESA1 [pdf]
University of Hamburg (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 is number 12 in C3 of the map): UHH [pdf]
robot image: pngimg.com, CC BY-NC 4.0, modified
