GS - GS 2024-07-21 Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder […]

GS - GS 2023-10-28 In a recent short paper, world-leading AI scientists and governance experts from the US, China, EU, UK, and other countries have highlighted that rapid AI progress will pose societal-scale risks. Along with their benefits, today’s AIs already pose a wide array of harms. Tomorrow’s systems will be far more powerful as AI labs […]

GS - 2022-01-26 Article from ACM TechNews An artificial intelligence (AI) technique developed by researchers at the U.K.’s University of the West of Scotland (UWS) can diagnose COVID-19 in a matter of minutes, versus two hours for a PCR test. Using x-ray technology, the technique compares scans to a database of about 3,000 images of healthy people, […]

GS - 2022-01-14 Sarah Engel is managing consultant and team lead for trustworthy AI at IBM. She advises her clients on innovation projects around artificial intelligence. Gerhard Schimpf (GS): Sarah, thank you so much for agreeing to an interview for our ongoing blog about Being Human with Algorithms. You may want to introduce yourself and give us […]

GS - 2021-07-07 Welcome to Nomadland: Online retailing giant Amazon’s Flex contract drivers say their jobs are at the mercy of software that can unfairly rate their performance. Algorithms mine data on performance patterns and assign drivers routes, or deactivate them, with little human feedback. One source says the Flex algorithms do not account for human nature, […]

GS - 2021-03-09 German standardization roadmap on AI presented. Artificial intelligence has already become an indispensable part of the digital world. But it is also clear that a technology will only be used successfully across the board if society accepts it. Although companies are increasingly recognizing the opportunities offered by AI, the general public is sometimes opposed […]

GS - 2021-02-02 Researchers at technology company Synergies Intelligent Systems and Germany’s Universität Hamburg have developed a machine learning algorithm that can identify which people in a moving crowd are most likely asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19. The continuous learning and inference of individual probability (CLIIP) algorithm bases its predictions on global positioning system (GPS)-tracked movement of people […]

GS - 2020-10-28 “Life in the automated society: How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it.” Today, Oct 28th 2020, the Bertelsmann Stiftung released an extensive report on the deployment of Automated Decision-Making (ADM) systems in the EU. For the report they investigated 16 EU countries, 40+ people were involved, with 30+ researchers […]

GS - Towards the path to Trustworthy AI, the European Commission’s expert panel on artificial intelligence released its final checklist for companies and researchers to see if the way they use AI can be considered “trustworthy.” Read the document here /1/. The tech industry loves the non-binding guidelines: “These self-assessment instruments are exactly what businesses need to show they […]

GS - 2020-03-11 The European Parliament: Panel for the Future of Science and Technology has released a new study on AI. This study deals with the ethical implications and moral questions that arise from the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It also reviews the guidelines and frameworks that countries and regions around the world […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content now more WIFI as the Internet got lost learn a lot about networking sharing with partners working and kids one colleague goes out every afternoon for ice […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content Is more collaboration or solidarity triggered through the restrictions? young people offer help great solidarity we have to see what stays maybe it will be a good […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content environment pollution now has kind of a break many things will come back digital tools need energy too we have to quantify the gain people should think […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content Do we witness a fast-forward towards Digital Transformation? we confess the use of new tools hard to look into the future it will be different afterwards virtual […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content self-discipline, start, structure, end how to free up schedule for important things like eating, exercising, reading a book find space for yourself student dorms are very small […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content can decrease efficiency people in conference calls often calendar fuller not all clients used to online-collaboration tools be in the same room, design thinking, etc. new big […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content invite in own living room kids, etc. are fine no occasion to step by but talk even more often as you cannot just look up more explicit […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea Martin is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content 40 people core team still daily standup after one week re-introduced: now sit-up also now well-being talk a lot more about content now: more efficient 15 […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea Martin is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content self every day clients not remotely now we introduce virtual collaboration depending on role but all virtual collaboration with everyone Technology and way how to work. […]

mop - In this feature I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea Martin is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content: All working from home but used to as globally integrated company with global teams technology was known and used by us before we were well-prepared f2f […]

GS - Brussels, Belgium May 7, 2020 – Today, the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) of the world’s largest society of computing professionals, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has released detailed principles and practices for the development and deployment of “contact tracing” technology intended to track and arrest the spread of COVID-19. In an […]

mop - In this interview I have the pleasure to exchange with Andrea Martin. Andrea Martin is the Leader IBM Watson Center Munich. She also is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Content What’s the difference? Digital Homeoffice – new? Daily socializing routine? More intimate collaborations? How do we cope with our limited life? How to organize your day? […]

GS - 2020-05-08 The Council of Europe today called on its 47 member States to take a precautionary approach to the development and use of algorithmic systems and adopt legislation, policies and practices that fully respect human rights. In a Recommendation on the human rights impacts of algorithmic systems, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers issued a set […]

GS - 2020-02-29 Yesterday, the Vatican’s “Rome Call for AI Ethics” was signed with media attention, see the Twitter Tag: @call_rome The text, a kind of call to develop and use artificial intelligence in a morally responsible (“ethical”) way, lists 6 principles: 1. transparency, 2. inclusion, 3. responsibility, 4. impartiality, 5. reliability, 6. security and privacy. The text […]

GS - 2020-02-19 The European Commission is publishing its grand vision for Europe’s digital future today. There are three documents setting the stage for economic development and regulation to preserve European values in a globalized world. The first document, “Shaping Europe’s digital future,” is the Commission’s road map for digital policy. The Commission is aiming about revamping competition […]

GS -   Do you also feel that something is wrong with the way Facebook, Google and the other giants treat us as citizens and users? After years of research, Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff has given this feeling a name: surveillance capitalism. Facebook has now lifted the veil covering their business model, which is based on ruthless […]

mop - Emmanuel Bricard is Chief Information Officer (CIO) at e.l.m. leblanc, France, which belongs to the Bosch Group. He is not only a technology expert but also holds an MBA degree. Emmanuel is an early adopter of information technology. He calls himself a father with a HoloLens. In the talk we cover many interesting topics from […]

mop - In this episode we discuss about privacy, responsibility, law enforcement, and many more highly interesting aspects of the digital transformation. Enjoy! Christian Thiel (https://www.christianthiel.com) and Dominik Golle are responsible fot the topic platform “Verbraucherbelange in der Digitalisierung” (https://zentrum-digitalisierung.bayern/verbraucherbelange ) at the zd.b (center for digitization Bavaria https://zentrum-digitalisierung.bayern/). In his PhD, Christian Thiel taught machine learning […]

mop - Thorben Albrecht has been the Social Democratic party (SPD)’s federal manager since 2018. He was previously State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs from 2014 to 2018. A historian by training, he headed Andrea Nahles’ office from 2007 to 2011 and then the politics department of the SPD Executive Committee from […]

GS - 2019-12-12 Yesterday the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launchds her effort to upend just about every policy area in the EU to make the bloc climate neutral by 2050. “This is Europe’s man on the moon moment,” von der Leyen said at the European Commission before presenting her flagship Green Deal policy to […]

GS - 2019-11-22 Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his vision for the future of the company at the annual Developer Conference. The Group’s products provide the infrastructure for core democratic functions such as freedom of expression, news distribution and access to information. Our societies are increasingly shaped by how Zuckerberg and a small elite of Silicon […]

GS - Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have an impact on the way we live and work together in the future. The societal implication of this technology is often discussed in a negative and speculative context, often by people who don’t know the basic principles of AI and even misunderstand what AI is all about. To overcome this […]

GS - 2019-07-29 This book written by Amy Webb is about Artificial Intelligence and how the “Big Nine”, in her words how the American giants Google plus MAFIA (Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Apple) together with their Chinese Opponents, the BAT (Baidu, ALIBABA, and Tencent) are shaping the world with their technology and how they could warp […]

mop - The Digital Transformation is currently changing all aspects of our lives fundamentally. In this series I discuss with people about their personal experiences regarding this Digital Transformation. This episode: Robert Tarjan, Turing Award Winner (“Nobel Price” for Informatics): 1986 for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. More info about […]

mop - The Digital Transformation is currently changing all aspects of our lives fundamentally. In this series I discuss with people about their personal experiences regarding this Digital Transformation. This episode: Whitfield Diffie, Turing Award Winner (“Nobel Price” for Informatics): 2015 for fundamental contributions to modern cryptography. More about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie The interview took place at the […]

GS - 2019-07-18 Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) are nearly ready for the first Human Volunteer and this will raise new questions about ethics and computer science. As we know from the lecture given last year by Professor Alexander Filipovic´ during our Symposium Being-Human with Algorithms, we know that ethical values are nor cast in stone. “Technical innovation […]

mop - The Digital Transformation is currently changing all aspects of our lives fundamentally. In this series I discuss with people about their personal experiences regarding this Digital Transformation. This episode: Steve Cook, Turing Award Winner (“Nobel Price” for Informatics): 1982 for his contributions to complexity theory. More about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cook. The interview took place at the […]

GS - 2019-07-10 After San Francisco has banned face recognition, here is hope for privacy also in Europe. Europe’s privacy watchdogs are looking to beef up restrictions for the use of facial recognition in a move that will affect how governments and big tech companies use this technology. Data protection agencies will discuss new guidelines this week […]

mop - The Digital Transformation is currently changing all aspects of our lives fundamentally. In this series I discuss with people about their personal experiences regarding this Digital Transformation. This episode: Sir Tony Hoare, Turing Award Winner (“Nobel Price” for Informatics): 1980 for fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages. More about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare […]

GS - 5.7.2019 „Challenges in Making Ethical Decisions: A Personal Perspective” was the title of the talk which Martin Hellman gave during our Being-Human with Algorithms Symposium last year in Heidelberg. Two days ago he held the “Heidelberg Lecture” on invitation by this year’s meeting of the Nobel laureates in Lindau. Both meetings, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum […]

GS - 2019-06-10 One of the pressing problems to be solved until 2030, is the climate change and the transformation of current technologies towards zero emission. This must be seen in the light that among others the EU member states have signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The question now is whether computer science (CS) is part […]

GS - Report on the Workshop on Digital Humanism  Hannes Werthner, TU Wien  April 2019 The first international workshop on Digital Humanism was held in Vienna, Austria, April 4 – 5, 2019. It was organized by the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien, and supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, and the Viennese Municipal Department […]

GS - 05-28-2019 There is hardly an international body that does not currently deal with the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whether at the EU level, in the G7 or G20 – groups of states around the world are struggling to find the political framework for technology. Less attention has been paid to the work of the […]

GS - 2019-05-13 The question of ethics is widely discussed in CS research, politics, and industry. What is the role of ethics? Should it serve the business and provide a stamp “Ethics Inside” on their AI products or are ethical values undisputable? The EU is now revealing a new system of ethics with specific relation to the […]

GS - 2019-05-10 One of the topics discussed during our symposium Being Human with Algorithms were the effects of decision making algorithms on interpersonal relationships and especially on the workplace. A recent report by the revealed practices used by Amazon. Amazon’s demanding culture of worker productivity has been revealed in multiple investigations. But a new report indicates […]

GS - 05/05/2019 Do we understand AI and do we trust AI? These were the two basic questions raised by Katherine Jarmul during her presentation at the Being Human with Algorithms symposium in Heidelberg last year. Her answer was we should be extremely careful, because we are still in an early stage before machine learning systems may […]

GS - AI and Ethics is currently a hot topic. On what basis regulation should take place and on what criteria should be applied is an open question. The international debate between science, industry, and policy makers reaches the civil society. ACM Europe has issued a white paper about ADM (automated decision making systems). https://europe.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/ie-euacm-adm-report-2018.pdf New ethics […]

mop - The so-called Digital Transformation is omnipresent and irreversible. It affects all strata of the population and all areas of life. The central term “algorithm” has recently been reduced to a negative connoted interaction between man and machine. Actually, an algorithm is something neutral, a calculation rule that humans have been using for many centuries. To […]

GS - Sebastian J. Schultheiss is Managing Director of Computomics Molecular Data Analysis in Tübingen, Germany. His company specializes in applied bioinformatics, specifically for agricultural applications like plant breeding to improve crops. Gerhard Schimpf (GS): Sebastian, thank you for agreeing to an interview about our topic Being Human with Algorithms. Could you introduce yourself and give us […]

GS -   MIT Physics Professor Max Tegmark has written an enthralling page turner about where we stand in the field of AI and where we could end up if we let things go uncontrolled. Tegmark is one of the founders of The Future of Life Institute, a volunteer-run research and outreach organization in the Boston area […]

mop - Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit is the founder of Marsbased, a fully digital company with literally no physical office. He is also the regional director of Startup Grind Barcelona. Marc-Oliver Pahl: Àlex it’s a great pleasure having you today on the interview. We are running the symposium “Being Human with Algorithms” “Mensch-Sein mit Algorithmen” as you know. […]

GS - Taras Panchenko is the chair of the Ukrainian ACM chapter, President of the Hackathon Expert Group and member of the CECL subcommittee of the ACM Europe Council. He says he is a life lover, a world changer, and breakthrough inspirer. Gerhard Schimpf (GS): Taras, I appreciate that you volunteered for this interview about the Symposium […]

GS - Mashhuda Glencross is a research consultant in computer graphics, xR and human computer interaction. She is director of research and development at Pismo Software Ltd. and SwitchThat Technologies Ltd. Mashhuda is active in several ACM groups. Currently she is the Vice-Chair of the Committee of European ACM Chapter leaders (CECL), a subcommittee of the ACM […]

mop - Dear reader, the Digital Transformation is unstoppable. We interact with algorithms every day – voluntarily and involuntarily. Sometimes this is good for us, sometimes it is not. In each case we cannot escape this reality. Not only in our [0] blog [1] but also in the real world [2] we want to shape the Digital Transformation […]

mop -   Vinton G. Cerf co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet and is Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.   He is a member of the National Science Board and National Academy of Engineering and Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and […]

GS - Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and co-founder of KIProtect, a data security and privacy company for data science workflows in Berlin, Germany. She researches and is passionate about ethical machine learning, data privacy and information security.  Gerhard Schimpf (GS): Katharine, thank you very much that you accepted our invitation to speak at our Symposium […]

GS - In Toronto on May 16th, a coalition of human rights and technology groups released a new declaration on machine learning standards, calling on both governments and tech companies to ensure that algorithms respect basic principles of equality and non-discrimination. Called The Toronto Declaration (Ref 1), the document focuses on the obligation to prevent machine learning […]

mop - Martin Hellman is best known for his role in inventing public key cryptography, the technology that enables secure Internet transactions. He also has contributed to the computer privacy debate, and was a key participant in the “first crypto war” of the late 1970s. He has authored over seventy technical papers, twelve US patents and a […]

GS - On the occasion of the “AI for Humanity” conference at the Collège de France, on March 29th 2018 the President of the French Republic presented France’s ambitions and strategy with regard to artificial intelligence. Development of artificial intelligence (AI) is a priority that the President of the Republic confirmed very early on by entrusting Cédric […]

GS - Manfred Mohr is an internationally renowned pioneer of digital art. He was one of the first artists to replace brushes and canvas with computers and plotters. Among his numerous awards is the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, which he received in 2013. He was honored by the ZKM / […]

mop - Alan Kay is best known for pioneering personal and laptop computers, and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface (GUI), and modern object-oriented programming, as part of the larger Advanced Research Projects Agency and Xerox PARC research communities. He likes to say “No one owes more to his research community than I do”. His […]

mop - On March 23, 2018 Marc-Oliver Pahl [1], Olivia Mackowiak [2, 3] and Gerhard Schimpf [4] from Being Human with Algorithms visited the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) in Karlsruhe [5]. The ZKM is a place for experimental contemporary art installations. Check their website for more information [5]. We had the great pleasure to meet […]

RS - Towards the end of the Middle Ages, there was an academic dispute between the then leading faculties theology and philosophy. Which one of the two was more important based on their origin and should be leading? Who should be mistress and who should be servant? Theology claimed leadership. After some considerations, the philosophers came back […]

GS - The IEEE has started a global initiative of Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. It covers a comprehensive set of topics to stimulate the ethical debate among researchers, engineers, the humanities, and affected end users. In their published material there is a section called Reframing Autonomous Weapons Systems which contains lots of background material and […]

RS - As a newcomer to the IT industry – especially with a philosophical and theological academic education – I was amazed already 20 years ago, about the many doctrines that I met in talks with the new colleagues. One believed “Microsoft alone is the future”, while the other spoke only of “micro-scrap” and even then believed […]

mop - On February 16, 2018, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, held a talk at the TUM Speakers Series [1]. Schmidt drew a very positive picture of the current development that algorithms more and more take over tasks that humans did before. More specifically he referred to the healthcare domain. Schmidt explained that in his vision […]

GS -   The question whether intelligent decision making algorithms produce fair and unbiased results is widely discussed by researchers. It seems that the bias is not contained in the algorithm itself but in the data used to train the algorithm. Viewed in the context these algorithms are being used, they pose starting points for sophisticated ethical […]

EOW - Von Ernst O. Wilhelm. Algorithms in Artificicial Intelligence (AI) are having increasing impacts on individuals and society with great benefits as well as potential harmful bias which needs to be addressed from the onset and not as afterthought. On May 25, 2017 the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council and the ACM Europe Council Policy Committee […]

GS - In the EU, the new GDPR effective 2018 has impacts on machine learning applications and strengthens the position of affected EU citizens. In the paper “European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation” written by Bryce Goodman and Seth Flaxman analyze the potential impact that the European Union’s new General Data Protection […]

EOW - Von Ernst O. Wilhelm. Auf der Basis einer im November veröffentlichten Umfrage, in der knapp über 1.000 Bundesbürger telefonisch befragt wurden, kommt die Bitkom zu dem Schluss, dass die Bundesbürger in allen Lebensbereichen grundsätzlich große Chancen beim Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) sehen wie z.B. in der Verkehrssteuerung, bei der Übertragung körperlich belastende Tätigkeiten, bei der […]

GS - In terms of regulations for  self-driving cars, Germany takes the lead. The German federal government will adopt new guidelines for self-driving cars inside the country, which will prioritize the value and equality of human life over damage to property or animals. German Guidelines These guidelines  were presented on Aug. 23 2017 by an ethics committee on […]

GS - In a recent article that appeared in Communications of the ACM, Martin Hellman (ACM Turing award winner 2016, together with Withfield Diffie) refers to a risk in today’s cyber security systems, which is probably overlooked by experts. In the 1970s, Diffie and Hellman developed the method of Public Key Cryptography which was later perfected by […]

mop - Mensch-Sein mit Algorithmen – Being Human with Algorithms Die digitale Transformation verheißt neue Geschäftsmodelle, weiter steigende Gewinne und zahlreiche Erleichterungen im Alltag. Dem stehen Ängste,Warnungen und ethisch begründete Befürchtungen gegenüber, dass Algorithmen missbraucht werden, sich verselbständigen und nicht mehr kontrolliert werden können. Mensch-Sein, Algorithmen und Verantwortung Noch vor Kurzem überraschten uns Datensammlungen in bis dahin […]

mop - Being Human with Algorithms – Mensch-Sein mit Algorithmen The digital transformation promises new business models, increasing profits, and numerous simplifications in our everyday lives. Besides the many opportunities there are also challenges that must be taken seriously. Those challenges are typically non-technical, concerning social implications of living with algorithms. Fears that were described in science […]