The DigHum College attending the 4th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School

It was a great opportunity for our DocCollege students to get an fresh input for our research! Addressing politics of digital technologies, education and regulation, language and culture from technology and social perspectives evolves along the technology development. The lectures were discussing the role of AI, especially generative AI, as underlaying topic, but seen from different angles.

The talks reflected Digital Humanism with its global dimension: only a global perspective will lead us to sustainable answers. The summer school allowed us to include this view thanks to its international participants, both students and lecturers, and we were glad to have the opportunity to exchange with participants from Kigali (Ruanda), where the first digHum Summer school took place in July.

Everything, everywhere, all at once: Peter Knees was highlighting the most important things on the current to-do list. It is ethical development and research, interdisciplinarity, involvement of the society and: taking responsibility while being creative.

We thank our friends from CAIML (Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning / TU Wien Informatics) for organising this meaningful conference.

The presentation slides of the lectures are accessible here.

Group picture, from left to right:

Peter Knees TU (College Scientific Lead), Stefan Foster  (Project “Visualization of Argumentation Networks”), Salome Wagner TU (Program Coordinator), Hannes Essfors Uni Wien (ass. Project “Digitization and linguistic diversity”), Hanna Kern WU (ass. Project “Participatory budgeting and citizens”), Prof. Dr. Julia Neidhardt TU (Faculty Member), Alicia Schwabenbauer  (Project “AI Literacy and Inclusive User Design”), Shahrzad Shashaani TU (Project “Recommendations Explained: Towards Transparency and Fairness for Various Stakeholders”)