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Ethics in IT

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Ethics in IT

TAMING THE MACHINES

Content

Winter Semester 2026/27

This semester’s edition explores ...

... the sites and settings of digital transformations, addressing the foundations of AI, the entanglement of technology and science, as well as implications for our access to the world and to ourselves. It ranges from a furthered examination of algorithms and their societal effects to the manifold faces of digital capitalism and a critical theory of this digital constellation.

To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit. 

Program

21.10.2026
Thinking with the Everyday Oracle: What Generative AI Is Doing to Our Minds.
Prof. Dr. Robert Clowes
NOVA University Lisbon, PT

04.11.2026    
Title: tbd
Speaker: tbd

18.11.2026
Latent Spaces, Transformers, and General Purpose AI: A Critique of New Mathematical Universalisms.
Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner
Universität Paderborn, DE

25.11.2026 
Title: tbd
Prof. Dr. Frauke Kreuter
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, DE

09.12.2026   
The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Rikap
University College London, UK

13.01.2027
Title: tbd
Prof. Dr. David M. Berry
University of Sussex

Lecture Time and Location

Wednesday, 18:15–19:45 (CET, 21.10.26: CEST)

Flü­gelbau Ost, 2. OG, Raum O 221
Ed­mund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Ham­burg

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