Beyond Buzzwords: Reimagining Responsibility in Digital Societies

In this talk, Prof. Ruha Benjamin takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with historical and sociological insight.

AI and Democracy: Can AI decide elections?

Public panel discussion as part of the AI initiative of the University of Basel [in German].

LGBTQIA+ User Experience [in German]

When it comes to digital solutions, LGBTQIA+ users largely have the same goals as other users. However, they still have certain specific requirements: no heteronormative and binary assumptions in the user interface, being able to adequately…

[Event held in German] AI in Sports - Will data soon decide who wins and who loses?

Film presentation and panel discussion in collaboration with uptownBasel

Insights from One Year of Customer Implementations of RAG-based Chatbot Systems Using MongoDB Vector Search

Colloquium of the Responsible Digital Society Research Network

INTERFINITY Festival 2024 - Artificial Art

Dreiteilige Serie zu KI und deren Auswirkungen auf Kunst und Gesellschaft

[in German] 20 Jahre Informatikstudium an der Universität Basel

Jubiläumsfeier

[in German] "Kollegin KI übernimmt" - Chancen und Risiken auf dem Arbeitsmarkt

Filmvorführung und Podiumsdiskussion zu Chancen und Risiken von KI auf dem Arbeitsmarkt

DMI Colloquium: Tomasz Kacprzak (Swiss Data Science Center, Paul Scherrer Institute/ETH Zurich)

A big telescope and a big computer: how HPC and AI will enable next breakthroughs in our understanding of the Universe

Thinking of AI

The event is organised by the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences (CDS) as part of this semester’s initiative "Thinking of AI" that aims to discuss current and future uses of artificial intelligence.