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Conference

Technological Futures Now: Racism, Imperialism, and the Surrogate Human Effect

This two-day symposium takes Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures by Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski as a generative starting point for urgent feminist and antiracist conversations about technology in our current moment. Central to the book are the concepts of the surrogate human effect and technoliberalism, which together diagnose how liberal promises of freedom are sustained through conditions of structural unfreedom. While technology may not directly cause unfreedom, it automates, scales up and accelerates the reproduction of racial, gendered, and colonial hierarchies through its entwinement with global capitalism, militarism, and empire. The symposium aims to probe how these insights might guide historical and contemporary approaches to the accelerating integration of AI, robotics, and algorithmic systems into a variety of geopolitical milieus. 

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Mercator Lecture for AI in the Human Context

Human Literacy in the Age of AI: Dissolving Anthropocentric perspective through Buddhist-Posthuman Dialogue

June 16, 2025 / 5.15 pm / CST

Visiting Professor Shoukei Matsumoto

As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes human experiences and interactions, our conventional anthropocentric perspective faces profound challenges. This lecture explores how Buddhist philosophy, particularly its non-dualistic view of life and interconnectedness, offers valuable insights for transcending human-centered thinking. By engaging in a dialogue between Buddhism and posthumanist perspectives, we can cultivate a new kind of human literacy—one that embraces coexistence and interdependence with AI and the broader ecological system.

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Talk

"KI erklärt" ("AI explained"): AI Act and AI Certification - What does that mean for us? 

May 22nd 2025, 19:00, Deutsches Museum Bonn

With the adoption of the EU AI Act, important regulatory requirements for the use of AI come into force. It is now important for companies to use the transition period to implement the regulatory requirements efficiently and as pragmatically as possible. Fabian Malms will explain how this can be done in a presentation at the Deutsches Museum Bonn. 

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Roundtable Discussion:

"KI erklärt" ("AI explained") - Trustworthy AI

March 20th 2025, 19:00, Deutsches Museum Bonn 

In this round table discussion, we will examine “trustworthy AI” from the perspective of business, politics, computer science and ethics. We talk about this with Tim Achtermeyer, the NRW state chairman of 
Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen; André Christ, Co-Founder & General Manager of SAP LeanIX;  Dr. Florian Mai, 
computer scientist and junior research group leader at the Conversational AI and Social Analytics (CAISA) Lab at the University of Bonn and Dr. Julia Maria Mönig, 
philosopher and ethicist and project manager of the philosophy sub-project in the KI.NRW flagship project “Certified AI”. 

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Workshop

Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

In today’s rapidly evolving world, advanced technologies like AI are not only transforming economies and governance but also reshaping societal values and human coexistence. While those technologies are already widely discussed within the disciplines of computer science, economics or applied ethics, their development and application concern core issues of the humanities. Over the course of the conference, we want to discuss not only how these technologies should be designed and used, but also how digital technologies influence concepts of humanity or society.


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Behind the Curtains of Oz: From AI Myths to AI Truths

Join us for a thought-provoking morning at the Center for Science and Thought, where leading AI scholars and experts take on some of the most overused terms in AI discourse—and dismantle them.

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Catalog of General Ethical Requirements for AI Certification

Workshop December 18th 2024, 3-5pm IZPH:

"General Ethical Requirements for AI Certification"  a conversation with 
Jocelyn Maclure and Markus Gabriel and launch of the whitepaper by Nicholas 
Kluge Corrêa and Julia Maria Mönig.

The research project "Certified AI" explores the question of what a 
certification of "trustworthy AI" could look like. The philosophy team, Nicholas 
Kluge Corrêa and Julia Maria Mönig, research this question from an ethical 
perspective.

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"KI erklärt" – Control and Regulation of AI: An introduction

Talks and Discussion: November 12th 2024, 7pm, Deutsches Museum Bonn:

The event series "KI erklärt" aims to make the „myth“ of artificial intelligence more accessible to a broader audience.
Together with leading experts, we explain fundamental concepts and functionalities of artificial intelligence and discuss ethical, economical and political question. 
For the first event, the focus will be on regulation of AI: In two talks, AI experts Olivia J. Erdélyi and Was Rahman will explain the fundamental concepts behind AI-technology and shed light on what control and regulation of AI (can) look like. Afterwards, there will be the opportunity for questions and discussion. The event well be held in German.

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