Oct 28-30 2019, there will be a Global Forum on AI for Humanity (GFAIH) in Paris.Several members of the UNESCO World Commission for the Ethics of Science and Technology will attend the meeting. The event takes place in the context of the forthcoming organisation of a Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), as decided at the … Continue reading Global Forum on AI for Humanity

At Oct 18 2019, 13h00 - 14h30, during the meeting of the UNESCO Executive Council, The Netherlands Permanent Delegation at UNESCO is organizing a side-event on the ethics of artificial intelligence, with a special focus on education. Opening speakers will be Dutch Ambassador Hans Wesseling, Dutch Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven, UNESCO Director-General Audrey … Continue reading UNESCO side event on the Ethics of AI

Op 21 november aanstaande – rond de geboortedag van Spinoza –  vindt in Amsterdam de bekendmaking van de laureaten van de Spinozalens 2019-2020 plaats: één voor een levende en één voor een dode denker. De prijzen staan dit keer in het teken van technologie. In toenemende mate stellen technologische ontwikkelingen ons voor complexe morele en existentiële vragen. Kan … Continue reading (Dutch) 21 November 2019: bekendmaking laureaten Spinozalens 2019-2020

Nov 4 2019 I will give a talk at the Brave New World Festival 2019. The entire day will be dedicated to "The Future of all Species", and I will speak about the future of human beings, artificial beings, and their interminglings. More info: https://bravenewworld.nl

October 17 2019, Bas de Boer will defend his dissertation on the mediating role of technological instruments in scientific practice, titled 'How scientific instruments speak: a hermeneutics of technological mediations in (neuro)scientific practice'. More information: https://www.utwente.nl/nl/bms/agenda/2019/10/244419/promotie-bas-de-boer

October 10 2019 Theo Wobbes will defend his dissertation on Human Enhancement in relation to the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner, titled 'Mens of geen mens? Een filosofie van de posthuman'. More information: https://www.utwente.nl/nl/academische-plechtigheden/promoties/agenda/2019/10/106160/promotie-theo-wobbes

In het kader van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda is de afgelopen maanden hard gewerkt aan een interactieve animatiefilm over wetenschap en samenleving. Tijdens de film bepaalt de kijker het verloop van het verhaal, door keuzes te maken in een aantal dilemma's rondom wetenschap, van robotica tot climate engineering en van health apps tot biotechnologie. Reint Jan … Continue reading (Dutch:) ROBIN: Interactieve film over wetenschap en samenleving

Happy to announce that we received a very large grant from the Dutch 'Gravitation' program, for a 10-year research project on the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies. Goal is to investigate how new technologies (digital, brain, bio, environmental) affect society, nature and the human being, and require radically new ethical concepts and frameworks. Principal Investigators … Continue reading 10-year grant for Ethics of Disruptive Technologies

At the 2019 conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, we have organized four sessions of postphenomenological research, with 16 papers in total. For more information, see the program + abstracts. Sheraton Hotel New Orleans, Sept 6 (2.45 - 6 pm) & Sept 7 (8 - 11.15 am), room Bayside A

Upcoming Digital Human Sciences Conference: Autonomy in Digital SocietyKeynote speakers: Richard Grusin (Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Peter-Paul Verbeek (Professor of Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente) November 7, 2019, 9 am–4 pm, Aula Magna, Stockholm University Contact: sonya.petersson@arthistory.su.se More information: http://dhv.dsv.su.se/konferenser/# Preliminary Program9:00–9:15        Introduction 9:15–10:15      Richard Grusin, Professor of English, University of … Continue reading Autonomy in Digital Society: Stockholm, Nov 7 2019