Veranstaltungen

27. Mai 2021, 17:00 bis 18:30

2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture: Moshe Y. Vardi

Vortragsreihe

Moshe Y. Vardi: “Technology is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering? From the Vienna Circle to Digital Humanism”.

In this year’s Vienna Gödel Lecture, Moshe Vardi explains why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society. The benefits of computing are intuitive. Computing yields tremendous societal benefits; for example, the life-saving potential of driverless cars is enormous. But computing is not a game—it is real—and it brings with it not only societal benefits but also significant societal costs, such as labor polarization, disinformation, and smartphone addiction. The common reaction to this crisis is to label it as an “ethical crisis”, and the proposed response is to add courses in ethics to the academic computing curriculum. This talk will argue that the ethical lens is too narrow. The real issue is how to deal with technology’s impact on society. Technology is driving the future, but who is doing the steering? Moshe Vardi will show how these issues relate to the Vienna Circle and the recently declared Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism.

Kalendereintrag

Veranstaltungsort

Hybridveranstaltung
1060 Wien
TUtheSky, Getreidemarkt 9

 

Veranstalter

TU Wien Informatics
Claudia Vitt
communications@informatics.tuwien.ac.at

 

Info-Link

https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2020

 

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Ja

 

Kostenpflichtig

Nein

 

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