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What – if? The cunning of uncertainty meets predictive algorithms
13. June 2022/18:00 - 19:30
Virtual Lecture Series | Summer Semester 2022
Vortrag von Prof. em. Dr. Helga Nowotny (ETH Zurich, Professorin em. für Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Wissenschaftsforschung)
Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich and former President of the European Research Council. She has held teaching and research positions at several universities and research institutions in Europe and continues to be actively engaged in research and innovation policy at European and international level. Among other, she is currently member of the Board of Trustees of the Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin, Vice-President of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, a member of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received multiple honorary doctorates including from the University of Oxford and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Her latest publication “In AI we Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms” has been published by Polity Press in September 2021.
Convenors: Christoph Burchard (Goethe University, PI ConTrust and “Normative Orders”) and Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Goethe University, PI ConTrust)
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