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How do we guarantee digital integrity in the future? What steps do we need to take to preserve the utility, but also the integrity, of the Internet on a multilateral level and with respect to a wide range of stakeholders? And at the same time, how can we enhance the security of users and institutions that rely on the Internet?In this talk, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, one of the “fathers of the ...

What are the challenges of finding consensus in a diverse Europe and the potential of Europe as a global regulator of the digital field? Renate Nikolay is a key voice in the development of European digital regulation, with a deep experience in data protection, hate speech, and disinformation. She will talk with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz about the challenges of finding consensus in a diverse Europe ...

Media systems in Central and Eastern Europe have been subject to significant transformation processes over the past two decades. In the face of populist tendencies and with large swathes of the media being captured by governments and oligarchs, the space for independent journalism has dramatically shrunk in most of the region’s nations. For citizens, this results in experiencing their everyday ...

On Tuesday, November 16th at 6:00 pm ET in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, this year’s Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press will be delivered by Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder and CEO of Rappler.com, Fall 2021 Shorenstein Center Fellow, and Center for Public Leadership Hauser Leader. Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Director Nancy ...

Public pressure on platform companies to more soundly monitor the content on their sites is constantly increasing. To address this, platforms are turning to algorithmic content moderation systems. These systems prioritize content that promises to increase engagement and block content that is deemed illegal or is infringing the platform's own policies and guidelines. But content moderation is a ...

Lucia Zedner (Oxford, All Souls College, Professor of Criminal Justice)Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School, Professor of Law and of Political Science)Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School, Professor of Law)Christoph Burchard (Goethe University, Professor of Criminal Justice etc.)Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Goethe University, Professor of Public Law etc.)Jürgen Kaube (Co-Editor at Large, ...

The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The lecture was preceded by a ceremony to commemorate Yehuda Elkana.As we move into a world in which algorithms, robots, and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to better understand ...

When the computer decides about our insurance coverageArtificial intelligence is being increasingly leveraged across industries to offer superior products and services and optimize business processes. The proliferation of AI, however, raises a number of ethical questions on data privacy, fairness, bias, and accountability. In the future, will AI decide who is insured and who is not? Who will get ...

After failing to fully recover from the last financial crisis, the pandemic poses major new challenges for banks. However, this time, banks are not the problem, but part of the solution. By providing credit to the economy, banks play a crucial role in fighting the pandemic by ensuring the transmission of fiscal and monetary stimulus to the economy. Nevertheless, banks are not among the winners of ...

A Genealogy of Criminal Risk Assessment in American Law and PolicyJonathan Simon (UC Berkeley, Professor of Criminal Justice Law)Algorithms – and the actors behind them – are surveying and impacting ever more dimensions of our modern lives. They recommend which movies to watch; they calculate risk-appropriate credit scores; and they play a role in meting out “just” punishment; to only name ...

A Genealogy of Criminal Risk Assessment in American Law and PolicyProf. Jonathan Simon (Professor of Criminal Justice Law, UC Berkeley)Convenors: Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe University, Professor of Criminal Justice, PI of ConTrust and "Normative Orders") and Prof. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Goethe University, Professor of Public Law, PI of ConTrust)Presented by:Forschungsverbund ...

Never apologise, never explain: (How) can AI rebuild trust after conflicts?Burkhart Schäfer (University of Edinburgh, Professor of Computational Legal Theory)Opening Remarks by Prof. Enrico Schleiff (President of Goethe University)Opening Remarks by Prof. Rainer Forst (Speaker of ConTrust and Normative Orders)Welcoming Remarks & Comment Prof. Klaus Günther (Dean of the Faculty of Law Goethe ...

Algorithms – and the actors behind them – are surveying and impacting ever more dimensions of our modern lives. They recommend which movies to watch; they calculate risk appropriate credit scores; and they play a role in meting out “just” punishment; to only name a few areas. At the same time, they correct imperfect human decisions and add new informational dimensions to decisions ...

Risks of discrimination related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making are already well-documented in several domains, including policing, hiring, loans, and benefit fraud detection. In the past year, a number of cases have indicated that the health and medical sector are not immune to the discriminatory effects of AI. Studies have shown that algorithms widely ...

If we are building AI for the future we envision, AI applications must serve humanity and respect fundamental rights. Intergovernmental institutions and supranational entities which have published their AI principles in the last couple of years are now facing the challenge of how to regulate the use and effects of AI applications. The biggest risks and impact on rights are considered to be in ...

Humanity is going through a historical moment with a global pandemic reshaping our lives and the world we live in. Public health measures combined with tech solutionism is taking surveillance to the next level. Surveillance has become more and more normalized into our lives. Contact tracing apps and wearables are being introduced while governments are discussing immunity passports and long-term ...

Machine intelligence plays a growing role in our lives. Today, machines recommend things to us, such as news, music, and household products. They trade in our stock markets and optimise our transportation and logistics. They are also beginning to drive us around, play with our children, diagnose our health. How do we ensure that these machines will be trustworthy? This lecture explores various ...

The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) – the financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe – has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. Launched by the Juncker Commission and the EIB Group in 2014, it has gone well beyond its target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. In the meantime, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the ...

As the next wave of information technology matures, many commentators worry about the job disruption that automation technology will bring. In a recent policy brief released by the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors argued that the United States currently taxes machinery and equipment too little compared to labor, thereby encouraging ...

There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems. It establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order which explains and justifies processes of online rule and regulation. This order ...