24 Oct 2024 / News, Events

Beyond Buzzwords - Reimagining Responsibility in Digital Societies

On 24 October 2024 the RDS were honored to host Prof. Ruha Benjamin for a talk on reimagining responsibility in digital societies.

22 Oct 2024 / News, Events

AI and Democracy

On Tuesday, October 22, the first public event of the University of Basel's AI-Initiative took place, co-organised by the Responsible Digital Society Research Network. The interdisciplinary and topical event, attracted an audience of over…

15 Aug 2024 / News, Events

Movie Screening and Panel Discussion on "AI in Sport"

On 14.8.2024, the fifth event in the joint series “Digitalization – and now?” by uptownBasel and the Responsible Digital Society (RDS) research network of the University of Basel took place at uptownBasel in Arlesheim. After a welcome…

04 Jul 2024 / News

RDS colloquium on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

The RDS colloquium on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) by Philip Eschenbacher from MongoDB was very well received and revealed a wealth of opportunities for developing targeted and knowledgeable chatbots for the University of Basel. As…

22 Mar 2024 / News

Game Show “Artificial Art – Human Composers vs. AI”

The game show “Artificial Art – Human Composers vs. AI”, organized by Interfinity Basel and the RDS, attracted great interest. The competent Basel music audience took up the challenge of distinguishing between music composed by an AI and…