AICON Humane Conversations #1 2025
AICON Interview with Annemiek Mi-Jin de Groote and Nanna Kassenaar – members of the AICON movement, guest speakers at the Humane Conversations event on the Interplay of AI and Art,…
Zachary FormwaltHumane Conversations #1 2025
https://www.zacharyformwalt.com/ Interview with Zachary Formwalt, guest speaker at the Humane Conversations event on the Interplay of AI and Art, 1 July 2025: Hi Zachary! Could you tell us briefly about…
#1 Humane Conversations 2025Humane Conversations hybrid event on Art & AI, Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Humane Conversation: Art & AI On July 1, 2025, we kicked off the first Humane Conversation of this season, on the topic of Art & AI. It was the warmest…
#23 Humane Conversation – Trust or Transparency? Interacting with AIwith Nicole Krämer and Chris Starke
We are pleased to announce our hybrid Humane AI Conversation at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Oude Turfmarkt 147 on Tuesday, the 21st of November, between 12:30 and 13:30.…
#22 Humane Conversation – Design Justice Labs: An Approach to Critical AI Studieswith Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Anna Schjøtt Hansen, Dieuwertje Luitse, Tobias Blanke
On Monday, November 20, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, a distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of the new interdisciplinary journal Critical AI, will discuss design…
#21 Humane Conversation – AI Development and Philosophy: In the Past and the Futurewith John W. Murphy and Randon Taylor
Algorithms have emerged as the key culprits contributing to the misery currently reported at workplaces and other organizations. The primary complaint is that this technology fosters the mistreatment of persons. …
#20 Humane Conversation – Whose Extinction? Resisting the Environmental Impact of AIwith Sebastián Lehuedé and Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos
Rather than being abstract and immaterial, the supply chain and infrastructure sustaining AI are already causing concrete environmental harm in various regions worldwide. Within this context, this presentation highlights two…
Special webinar “Digital Transformations in Latin American News Landscape”by Humane Conversations, IAMCR & DMSO
On the 5th of May, 2023, at 4:30 PM CET, we will be joined by four esteemed speakers, Professor Pablo J. Boczkowski from Northwestern University in the USA, Prof. Mireya…
#19 Humane Conversation – A Call for (Global) South to North Methodological Approaches in Critical AI Studieswith Andrea Medrado and Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos
In this conversation, Dr Andrea Medrado and Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos interrogate ideas of artificial intelligence (AI) for social good, drawing inspiration from Participatory Action Research (PAR) and the…
#17 Humane Conversation – Book talk: Algorithmic Reason – The New Government of Self and Otherwith Claudia Aradau, Tobias Blanke, moderated by Randon Taylor and Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos
How did algorithms, big data, and artificial intelligence become the inevitable answer to global challenges? Political rationality is rising across the world which situates emerging technology as key to social,…
#18 Humane Conversation – Automating Fairness? Artificial Intelligence in the Chinese Courtwith Rachel E. Stern and Ljubiša Metikoš
Join us on Monday, the 17th of April, from 16:00 to 17:30 where professor Dr Rachel E. Stern will talk about the Chinese legal system and its increasingly widespread adoption…
#16 Humane Conversation – Artificial Intelligence scepticism in news production: the case of South Africa’s mainstream news organisationswith Allen Munoriyarwa and Mathias Felipe de Santos
The proliferation and use of Artificial intelligence (AI) have been met with celebratory acceptance in scholarly discussions and the public sphere. However, in these intellectual debates, skepticism about AI adoption…
#15 Humane Conversation – Synthetic Media & Newswith Nick Diakopolos, Mathias Felipe de Santos, and Chris Starke
In the spirit of the holidays, we are giving you the opportunity to interact and listen to fascinating researchers in our new edition of the Humane AI Conversations! If you…
#14 Humane Conversation – Military AI: experimentation, platforms, and profitwith Marijn Hoijtink, Anneroos Planqué-van Hardeveld, and Ljubiša Metikoš
Against the background of a highly speculative rhetoric around the transformative potential of ‘AI’, military forces worldwide are increasingly experimenting with pattern recognition, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and facial…
#13 Humane AI Conversation – The antecedents and consequences of ambivalence about agentic technologieswith Gijs van Houwelingen and Chris Starke
Both in the popular press and in scientific literature, it is often assumed that people are quite wary of agentic (i.e, smart) forms of technology. Yet, at the same time,…
#12 Humane AI Conversation – Getting the AI Regulation Right: a Research Agendawith Natali Helberger
The protection of fundamental rights and the human-centric, ethical and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is a central ambition of the European AI strategy, with no lesser goal…
#11 Humane Conversation – Imagining the future, performing the state – Germany’s national AI strategywith Jens Hälterlein and Ljubiša Metikoš
In the past few years, many governments and supranational organisations published strategy papers in which they present their visions of the future development, application and regulation of AI. Nations states…
#10 Humane Conversation – Stereotypes in Language & Computational Language Modelswith Katrin Schulz, Robert van Rooij, Anthi Solaki
In these two interdisciplinary projects, Katrin Schulz - professor of logic at the department of philosophy of Universiteit van Amsterdam - and Robert van Rooij - director of the Institute…
#9 Humane Conversations – “How to tame an evil AI?”with Iyad Rahwan
In this talk, using only cartoons illustrated by Iyad Rahwan, the director of the Center for Humans and Machines Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, we will explore…
#8 Humane Conversations – “Developing AI for Healthcare”with Ivana Išgum and Hannah van Kolfschooten
#8 Humane Conversations – “Developing AI for Healthcare”with Ivana Išgum
AI holds a promise to revolutionize healthcare. It has the potential to improve the quality of care by improving diagnosis and prognosis, reducing growing healthcare costs through automation, and making…
#2 Humane Conversations – Beate Rössler"A" as in Autonomy and "I" as in "SocIal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknPpiO4loM On 13 October we launched our first of a series of webinars called "Humane Conversations". The initiative seeks to connect researchers across humanities, social sciences and computer…
#1 Humane ConversationsWhat's happening in AI research and what does it mean for Humane AI?
On 13 October we launched our first of a series of webinars called "Humane Conversations". The initiative seeks to connect researchers across humanities, social sciences and computer scientists to discuss…