DigHum lecture “After the US Elections: the Future of AI Policy and Digital Humanism” by Marc Rotenberg

Moderator Hannes Werthner

Location:
Live stream on Youtube see page for the link
Date:
November 26, 2024 @ Live stream on Youtube see page for the link
Involved:

Speaker: Marc Rotenberg (Center for AI and Digital Policy, USA)
Moderator: Hannes Werthner (TU Wien, Austria)

Abstract

The outcome of the US election will have an impact on the world, including and especially on AI and AI governance. In our digital humanism lecture and discussion, we will reflect on the situation and look to a possible future. We must avoid fatalism, the topic should be “Next Steps”. There is a larger conversation to begin. This would provide an opportunity to place AI policy in the larger context of digital humanism. 

Invited speaker

Marc Rotenberg is President and Founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy. He is a leading expert in data protection, open government, and AI policy. He has served on many international advisory panels for digital policy, including the OECD AI Group of Experts. Marc helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI, a widely endorsed human rights framework for the regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Marc is the author of several textbooks including the 2020 AI Policy Sourcebook and Privacy and Society (West Academic 2016). He teaches privacy law and the GDPR at Georgetown Law. Marc has spoken frequently before the US Congress, the European Parliament, the OECD, UNESCO, judicial conferences, and international organizations. Marc has directed international comparative law studies on Privacy and Human Rights, Cryptography and Liberty, and Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values. Marc is a graduate of Harvard College, Stanford Law School, and Georgetown Law. 

Moderator

Hannes Werthner is a retired Professor for E-Commerce at the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien. Prior to joining TU Wien, he had several professorships at Austrian and international Universities. His research is in several fields such as Decision Support Systems, E-Commerce, E-Tourism, Recommender Systems, and lately in Network Analysis and Text Mining. Besides research and teaching he is active in starting new initiatives, such as the Vienna PhD School of Informatics and the i2c (Informatics Innovation Center). In the area of E-Tourism, the International Federation for IT and Tourism (IFITT) grants the “Hannes Werthner Tourism and Technology Lifetime Achievement Award” to outstanding academics and/or professionals in the field. 

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