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WEBCAST Dec 9 – Digital Freedom Summit 2023 in Kathmandu, Nepal
by Joly MacFie 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

This is just starting. No real time text since dual language, but it is mostly English. EN AI Captions are on in the zoom. Last year's event is just now archived <https://archive.org/details/digitalfreedomsummit2022> *[image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d1cc4875eb7b4bfbb260b3fe…>On Saturday 9 December 2023, the Digital Freedom Coalition <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=47fdde0fb3089fad43643ea8…> presents Digital Freedom Summit 2023 <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c56695ef289cc919f15e19c9…> in Kathmandu, Nepal. Under the theme 'Nurturing An Inclusive Digital Future', this year’s summit aims to further explore the evolving landscape of digital freedom in Nepal addressing the panel discussions, workshop and capacity building over critical issues surrounding digital freedom. This annual event serves as a catalyst for in-depth discussions, knowledge sharing, and collaboration, with the ultimate goal of democratizing Nepal’s digital transformation.* *AGENDA https://digitalfreedom.org.np/#!/schedule <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b8c644b09a876ede1516f668…>* *NPT / UTC 09:30 / 03:45 Opening Ceremony* *Ananda Gautam*, Chair, Youth IGF Nepal *Dipesh Bista*, Chief Executive Officer, E-Governance Commission *Michael Croft* - Head of Office and UNESCO Representative to Nepal - UNESCO *Prof. Dr. Rohan Samarajiva*, Chair, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka Professor Dr. Kilnam Chon, Founder of Internet in Asia Hon. Indira Rana Magar, Deputy Speaker, House Of Representatives 11:00- / 05:15 Regulation of Cyberspace : Lessons for Nepal Moderator: Laxman Dutt Pant, President, Media Action Nepal Netra Prasad Subedi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Communication and IT (MoCIT) Taranath Dahal, Executive Chief, Freedom Forum Nepal Samiran Gupta, Vice President, Government and IGO Engagement APAC & Stakeholder Engagement South Asia, ICANN Prof. Dr. Rohan Samarajiva, Chair, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka Victoria Hyde, Asia Internet Coalition, Singapore 12:00 / 06:15 Freedom to Digital Infrastructure: Ensuring Inclusive Internet Moderator: Birodh Khatiwada, President, Disabled Care Nepal Hon. Prakash Panth, Member of Parliament, National Assembly, Nepal Er. Min Prasad Aryal, Director, Nepal Telecommunications Authority Sagar Prasai, Founder & Managing Director, Diverse Patterns Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Bimal Acharya, Manager, Nepal Telecom (TBC) Susmeera Aryal, Co-founder/Executive Director, Women’s Group for Disability Rights 14:00 / 08:15 Internet Fragmentation in Nepal :Issues and Perspectives Moderator: Ujjwal Acharya, Founding chair, CMR Nepal Prakash Rayamajhi, IT Expert, Rht. Hon. Pushpa Kamal Dahal Sangeeta Pahadi, Managing Director, Nepal Telecom (TBC) Bikram Shrestha, President, Nepal Internet Foundation, Santosh Sigdel, Executive Director, Digital Rights Nepal Shashank Mohan, CCG, National LAw Univercity, New Delhi 15:00 / 09:15 Truth and Trust: Ethical and Legal Responses to Misinformation Moderator: Bhakta Bishwokarma, Media Expert Anil Kumar Dutta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Communications and IT Narayan Amrit, Chief Editor, NepalClicks.Com Nirjana Sharma, Head, Communications, UNESCO Kathmandu Office Avijeet Anturker, Advocate, Anturker and Associates, Pune, India Victoria Hyde, Asia Internet Coalition, Singapore/London 16:30 / 10:45 Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: What Parliament Thinks About? Moderator: Babu Ram Aryal, Chair, Digital Freedom Coalition Hon. CK Raut, Chairman and Member of Parliament, Janamat Party Hon. Jeevan Pariyaar, Member of Parliament, Nepali Congress Hon. Yogesh Bhattarai, Member of Parliament, CPN, UML Hon. Sumana Shrestha, Member of Parliament, RSP Hon. Bhanubhakta Jaisi, Member of Parliament, CPN (Unified Marxist) 17:30 / 11:45 Closing Ceremony *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalfreedomsummit2023 <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=af4b2957f9015b5f4e2f9a4a…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/49ZQd5n <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d932796bacaf24b37935f166…>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=05682a46cd9c6fab9498038a…>* ) *TWITTER #digitalfreedomsummit <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=aa3bce61b1bd4f857745c865…> #nepal @igovinstitute @DigitalMediaNP @MediaActionNpl @Educating_Nepal @yigfnepal @AntennaFN #Nepal @isoc_community* *MASTODON #digitalfreedomsummit <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c5f21387e5ea7047183d3a73…>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ef145916936f183d5f46389c…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d828f6b56570e8db05093653…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=4979d129ad1254e1aa7c278c…> *(AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/ <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=de00e7949ca9be0319ddefdb…> *(AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/digitalfreedomsummit2023 <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3c55cb9c58d6a1237ef6192c…>* Permalink https://isoc.live/17114 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New tripleC article by Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski: Against the Power of Computers and the Destruction of Reason. For the Development of Human Creativity and Judgement. Remembering the Critical Intellectual Joseph Weizenbaum on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday
by Christian Fuchs 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski: Against the Power of Computers and the Destruction of Reason. For the Development of Human Creativity and Judgement. Remembering the Critical Intellectual Joseph Weizenbaum on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday tripleC 21 (2): 140-146 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v21i2.1479 Abstract This article is a reflection on the relevance of Joseph Weizenbaum’s ethics today on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Today, there are many debates about the impact of AI technologies such as ChatGPT on society. Weizenbaum understood himself not as a computer and AI critic, but as a critic of society. He situated the problems of computing in the context of society. The paper shows that in the spirit of Weizenbaum we should also in the contemporary age of advanced AI remind ourselves that computers cannot understand, do not have feelings, and therefore cannot do many things that humans actively and consciously do. Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski is a German computer scientist and philosopher of science. He was a Professor of Information Processing at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2022, he was awarded the Wiener-Schmidt-Price by the German Society for Cybernetics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kybernetik).

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CFP SI Eptic journal - Artificial intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and critical thinking
by Jonas Valente 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

* Call for papers: Artificial intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and critical thinking* Artificial intelligence is a subject that has been increasingly popular in academia, in public debates, among authorities, and in mass media. Therefore, different knowledge fields have been dealing with it, pushing the debate out of the limits of exact sciences and computer science. In the fields of the humanities and social sciences, artificial intelligence has been analyzed through different approaches, such as power relations (Dyer-Whiteford et al., 2019), the limits of autonomy and its relation to humankind (Davies, 2008), the impacts on the relations of production (Benanav, 2020), the adverse effects such as in discriminatory practices (Benjamin, 2023), and the automation of human activities in areas such as law (Pasquale, 2019) and education (Zhai et al. 2021). Nevertheless, it is worth noting that a significant part of these approaches, far from the critique of political economy, falls under the traps of fetishism (Marx, 2013, 2014, 2017) and does not reveal the essential aspects hidden in the manifestations of the phenomenon. But there are exceptions, such as the works of Dyer-Whiteford et al. (2019), Lindgreen (2023), Steinhoff (2021), Gong (2021), Yi (2020), Cole et al. (2022) and Verdegem (2021), among others. However, these kinds of efforts need to be further expanded. It is urgent to adopt Marxist thinking and the arms of critique to unveil and analyze the social form that artificial intelligence assumes as an instrument of capital, as well as an instrument of alienation and estrangement of human labor, of labor instruments, of fruits from labor, and, ultimately, of human essence (Marx, 2004). Eptic Journal (ISSN 1518-2487) invites authors to submit articles to the dossier entitled *Artificial Intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and critical thinking.* Articles can be submitted until 16 February 2024. Texts must follow the journal's standard format <https://periodicos.ufs.br/eptic/announcement/view/444>. *We will receive submissions that deal with the following subjects:* - Labor and social relations in the realm of artificial intelligence. - How artificial intelligence affects working relations and capitalist exploitation in different sectors of the economy. - Aspects of formal subsumption and real subsumption of labor under capital in the context of artificial intelligence. - Impacts of artificial intelligence on the technical division of labor and the social division of labor. - How economic agents design and/or adopt artificial intelligence techniques. - Policies concerning the development and use of artificial intelligence. - The struggles in the sphere of regulation of artificial intelligence. - How the process of production and distribution of value and wealth are affected by the adoption of artificial intelligence. - Dependence and economic subordination of periphery countries in relation to countries that lead the design and use of artificial intelligence. - Artificial intelligence as a capitalist instrument of economic, symbolic, and political power. - Impacts of artificial intelligence in communication and culture from Marxist and critical perspectives. - Ethics challenges in the field of artificial intelligence from a critical perspective. - Resistances and possibilities of use of artificial intelligence as an instrument to face the capital order and its sociability. The focus of the dossier will be theoretical and empirical analyses based on the critique of political economy, as well as Marxist and critical thinking. *Deadline to submissions: 16 February, 2024* *Editors:* James Steinhoff - University College Dublin Jonas Valente - Oxford Internet Institute Rodrigo Moreno Marques - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Instructions for submissions are available at revistaeptic.net.br Kind regards, *Dr Jonas C L Valente* Postdoctoral Researcher, Fairwork Project Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford -- Jonas Valente http://twitter.com/jonasvalente

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CfA: “Digital Twinning”, New Media & Society, Special Issue
by Christoph Borbach 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Dear colleagues and AoIR fellows, We would like to draw your attention to the following call for abstracts of the journal /*New Media & Society*/ for a special issue on “*Digital Twinning*”. We look forward to receiving your paper proposals until December 31! Please feel free to forward the CfA to potentially interested colleagues. thanks & best greetings, Christoph ___ *Call for Abstracts: _/New Media & Society/_, Special Issue “Digital Twinning” /Ed. Christoph Borbach, Wendy Chun, and Tristan Thielmann/* Datafication in the analogue era followed a different logic than do today’s media processes, with all their entanglements and interdependencies with and within the ‘real’ world. Human bodies, system processes, and their data traces and virtual models are deeply intertwined in current postdigital—or rather, more-than-human (Lupton 2019)—media cultures. It is surely not a new idea that data and the technologies of its collection, storage, circulation, and evaluation are shaping how societies and individuals see themselves. But it is a novelty that processes of datafication within the context of ‘digital twinning’ and their future predictions and simulations of behavior—mostly systems behavior but also human purchasing and movement behaviors, with their political implications—are fundamentally changing the methods of production planning, processes, and products. Technologies of digital twinning ask once more how data practices affect and mold decision-making within institutions (Vertesi 2020). ‘Digital twins’ are currently the most important drivers of the fourth industrial revolution. These ever-more-complex technical products and processes are now developed and tested in the virtual sphere as software models before they emerge in the ‘real’ world. The paradigm of digital media technologies is therefore subject to fundamental change through the prevalence of digital twins in industry and research. The digital is no longer a real-time virtual representation of a real-world physical object: it is exactly the opposite and concurrently much more than that, allowing new forms of “premediation” (Grusin 2010), in the analysis of future performances of objects without the physical presence of the objects. Digital twinning therefore promises not only the potential of making futures predictable through recognition and correlation of digital and analog, virtual and physical (Chun 2021), but the ability to do so without physical counterparts. Digital twinning is no longer restricted to single entities—like objects being studied—but allows for modeling complex chains of co-operations. What is most striking from a media theory perspective is that technical objects, models, services, operations, or even entire cities, metro systems, or logistical architectures can be objects of digital twinning. Digital twins make clear that the real world is just one possible realization of the primarily virtual world. At the same time, digital twins and other haunting ‘data doppelgangers’ allow overarching data exchange and cooperation. They are more than pure data, proving once more that so-called “raw data” does not exist (Bowker 2005; Gitelman 2013). Digital twins consist of technical and social models of acting objects, and integrate various embedded sensors related to vital areas of functionality that make things and processes ‘sense-able’ (Gabrys 2019). Digital twins can therefore also include simulations and services, asking anew if there is anything worldly which may must remain “uncomputable” (Galloway 2021). Taking digital twinning as an analytic lens, the special issue will also try to understand aesthetics, politics, genders, and economies of ‘data doubles.’ These new symptoms of postdigital media and data cultures differ from previous motifs of doubles, e.g. literary doppelgangers as in the work of E. T. A. Hoffmann, among others. Selfies are emblematic of digital data cultures and their visual regime (Eckel et al. 2018), as are avatar images in avatar-based gaming (Klevjer 2022), since they are not mere pictorial representations but digital images of self-perception and self-modeling. They stand as digital doubles exemplary for the self in extended realities (XR), self-embodiment in digital spheres, and the continuum between offline and online (Coleman 2011). Similar to digital twins, digital ‘doubles’ even without a physical ‘original’ can unfold influence, literally, as virtual influencers or actors such as Hatsune Miku demonstrates. Media practices of doubling and storing the self might have predigital histories (Humphreys 2018). But only digital tracking applications can be regarded as real-time feedback loops that influence human behavior. This can be seen positively since it transforms the way humans self-optimize, e.g. their athletic behavior, as quantified self-movement shows. But it can also be critically reflected from a political standpoint, since it evokes a shift from individuals to ‘dividuals’ and an interpretation of human beings as conglomerates of sensor technology, flesh, and data doubles within surveillant assemblages (Haggerty and Richard 2000). To account for this complex technological situation and its social impacts, the special issue “Digital Twinning” will bring together researchers from different fields: engineering and social science, informatics and media studies. The aim is to understand concepts and practices but also politics and aesthetics of data doubling and digital twinning that are not restricted to purposes of system and production monitoring, maintenance, and simulation—that is, processes of digital engineering. We will also expand the scope, to include real-time interrelations of digital data acquisition and simulation, on the one hand, and the physical performance of humans, things, and systems, on the other. We are seeking *abstracts* (500 words) for submissions until *December 31, 2023* (to be sent to *christoph.borbach(a)uni-siegen.de, subject: “NM&S Special Issue: Digital Twinning”*), that might address—but are not limited to—one or more of the following topics: * how is data agential (in digital twinning)? * interrelations and interdependencies between physical and digital twins and doubles * politics, (data) economies, and technologies of digital twinning and doubling * boundaries in the modeling of twins * (de)central places of twinning: where is it to be done, and by whom? * twinning as labor: precarious work, and/or precarious for workers? * histories of twinning: from science fiction, to NASA, to the public? * future digital practices of twinning * imaginaries and aesthetics of twinning * gendering and aesthetics of avatars * challenges and difficulties of data governance, data rights, and data sustainability * sensor ecologies and their impact on digital twinning * media and social theories of digital twinning * digital methods, ethnographic, and ethnomethodological approaches for further research on digital twinning * applications for digital twins in the industrial and consumer metaverse -- Dr. Christoph Borbach Team »Science, Technology and Media Studies« www.mobilemedia.uni-siegen.de University of Siegen

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New Book: Invocational media: Reconceptualising the computer
by Chris Chesher 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

New book: Invocational media: reconceptualising the computer Chris Chesher Bloomsbury Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer: Chris Chesher: Bloomsbury Academic<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/invocational-media-9781501363627/> Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media. Turning away from computational media as "digital" and instead theorizing computers through their capacity to invoke, to call things up and respond, Chris Chesher's Invocational Media provides a staggeringly original perspective on technology that thrillingly reimagines almost all foundations of digital culture. ― Grant Bollmer, Associate Professor of Media Studies, NC State University, USA In a time where we are all mesmerized by the magic of ChatGPT and similar AI technologies, Chris Chesher's book is highly welcomed and timely. Using the concept of invocation and engaging with a wide range of relevant media philosophy, Invocational Media offers an interesting and highly original way to theorize how we design, experience and interact with digital technologies and, more precisely, how they design us. This is an important contribution to the philosophy of media and compulsory reading for everyone puzzled by the mystery of contemporary AI. ― Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, Austria Just at the moment when the interactive interface is newly ascendant and we thought that all had been said, along comes this gift of a book. Thinking with the generative trope of invocational media, Chesher refigures the power and limits of computation. Invocational Media offers a history of the present of human-computer interaction, and a proposal for how we can rearticulate its future. It will be of interest to anyone engaged with the invocations, avocations and evocations that comprise relations at and through the interface. ― Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK -- DR CHRIS CHESHER | Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures Degree Director Digital Communication and Culture Department of Media and Communications School of Literature, Art, and Media | Faculty of Arts THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm N222, Woolley A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 6173<tel:+61290366173> | F +61 2 9351 2434<tel:+61293512434> | M+61 404 095 480<tel:+61404095480> E chris.chesher(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:chris.chesher@sydney.edu.au> | W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/digital_cultures/ Map- http://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/maps.shtml?locationID=A20 Recent publications: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/invocational-media-9781501363627/ The emergence of autolography: the ‘magical’ invocation of images from text through AI https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231193252 This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments.

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Deadline Extended: Sign up by January 15 to run a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2024!
by Helaine Blumenthal 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

There's still time to run a Wikipedia assignment next term: You can now sign up by January 15 to run a Wikipedia assignment next term! If you're concerned about how to help your students navigate today's information landscape, you're not alone! There's still a lot you can do though to ensure the integrity of information available to the public at large. In an age of generative AI, Wikipedia stands out as a place driven by human curated knowledge. Your students can participate in this critical endeavor. Incorporate a Wikipedia assignment into your course next term! Visit teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> to find out more about Wiki Education's free support and how to get started for the spring term. Attend an upcoming workshop! Attend <https://wikiedu.org/webinars/>one of our upcoming workshops to learn more about this unique pedagogical opportunity. Click here <https://wikiedu.org/webinars/> to register for a session. Wiki Education's support is fully funded, and there are no fees to participate. The program is open to post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Please reach out to me directly with any questions about Wiki Education! -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C…>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/> -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C…>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>

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Announcing an AoIR Flashpoint Symposium - April 2024, Hyderabad, India
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

We’re thrilled to announce an AoIR Flashpoint Symposium to be hosted by The Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India, and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India, to be held on 13 April, 2024! The symposium will explore forms and structures of labour contributing to digital infrastructures, content, and systems, and presents an extensive opportunity for emerging and senior scholars, members of the digital/platform labour rights advocacy and activist community in the region to connect around critical questions related to the theme. In addition to two keynote panels, this one-day symposium will feature three thematic panels dealing with the labour behind the construction of the digital—as platform, infrastructure, device, content, environment, or medium, with particular emphasis on experiences and perspectives from underrepresented groups. A call for abstracts will be published on 15 December, 2023. Watch this space!

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Survey Participants Needed for Social Media Activism Research
by Leah Corinne Jones 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Dear Colleagues, Please consider taking part in or passing along the links to survey research titled “Contemporary Social Media Activism: Understanding impacts and emerging platforms.” The surveys focus on #DontSayGay and #BansOffOurBodies/#RoeVWade as they spread on social media, particularly Twitter/X, Instagram, and TikTok. You can access both the information about the study and the surveys through the following links: #DontSayGay: https://rpi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dnTpzFgm7FA3DF4 #BansOffOurBodies/#RoeVWade: https://rpi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7QAcGn5ZbMR2G4S This study seeks to learn about the types of social justice content that people see and share on social media, how that content changes as it spreads, and how people who saw and shared this content describe their experiences. Anyone who is 18 years old and has seen #DontSayGay or #BansOffOurBodies/#RoeVWade on social media is eligible to participate. The survey will take about 20 minutes to complete. To protect sensitive information, Qualtrics will not collect your IP address. You may skip any questions with which you feel uncomfortable. The study is confidential, and no personal data will be collected from you, although you may choose to input your email for a follow-up interview. Thanks in advance for your input and for sharing the survey with relevant contacts! Corinne

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Call for Proposals: The Ethics of Large-Scale Models
by Nicole McAlee 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab 2023-2024 Call for Proposals The Ethics of Large-Scale Models ---------------------------------------- OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------- Large-scale models are drawing significant widespread public interest, driven by an increased focus on applications that leverage this technology, such as ChatGPT, LLaMa, DALL-E, or Midjourney. Large-scale models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems pre-trained on large datasets for general-purpose use, often adapted for a specific task using a fine-tuning process. Their adoption and impact are accelerating, driven by their potential in various contexts. With the increased adoption of large-scale models, multiple stakeholders have raised concerns regarding the ethical issues surrounding their design, development, and use. While these models raise many of the same high-level tech ethics concerns as other forms of AI, they drive specific concerns around their potential to spread inaccurate information, violate intellectual property rights, and create increased data privacy risks, to name a few. In addition, medium- to long-term impacts of using these technologies also have the potential for unexpected impacts in critical sectors, such as education and health. The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, under the auspices of the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, invites proposals for projects that grapple with these challenges, providing new insights or suggesting innovative solutions. Potential applications for study include industry (e.g., healthcare, financial services), artistic creation, sustainability, neurotechnologies, politics, emergency and disaster management, advertising, social media, smart cities, and others. Examples of areas for research and scholarship include, but are not limited to, the following: - Society, Community, and Culture - Inclusive stakeholder dialogue - Education - Future of work and upskilling - Community awareness and engagement - Impact to culture - Governance and Policy - Governance of organizations and systems - Informed and inclusive policy development - Guiding principles - Frameworks for adoption and decision-making - Interdisciplinary - Developing trustworthy systems - Design principles - Human-AI collaboration - Return on investment (ROI) - Other topics not described here Successful applications will propose a defined deliverable (e.g. research papers, draft policy, teaching materials, and impact assessments) that addresses the challenges described in the call to be completed between April 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. ---------------------------------------- KEY DATES ---------------------------------------- 2023 - December 7 - Application period opens 2024 - February 16 - Application period closes - April 1 - Projects kick off - April - Virtual recipient workshop - October - Virtual recipient workshop - December 31 - Projects close and deliverables due 2025 - January - Tech Ethics Forum at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA ---------------------------------------- PROJECT AWARDS ---------------------------------------- Recipients may apply for up to $60,000 USD in award funding and will have from April 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 to complete their project, including preparation, research, execution, and deliverables. A detailed budget and timeline should be submitted as part of the application. ---------------------------------------- TO APPLY ---------------------------------------- For full details of the call, including eligibility criteria, proposal preparation guidelines, and a link to the application form, please visit https://techethicslab.nd.edu/call-for-proposals/. Questions may be directed to techlab(a)nd.edu.

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PROPEC/FAPESP/UFS No. 5/2023 PUBLIC NOTICE – Selection Process of Post-Doctoral Fellowship
by Regulação UFS FAPESP 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Dear Aoir Team, We request wide dissemination of the following Notice: PROPEC/FAPESP/UFS No. 5/2023 PUBLIC NOTICE – Selection Process of Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Coordination of the Graduate Program in Economics at the Federal University of Sergipe, considering the availability of 01 (one) Post-Doctoral fellowship in a project financed by FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation, makes public the opening of applications for the selection process of 01 (one) candidate for Post-Doctorate, with a stipend funded by FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation – PROPEC/FAPESP/UFS N° 5/2023 PUBLIC NOTICE – Selection Process of Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Submission of applications - From 5/12/2023 to 10/1/2024 until 23:59 Detailed information about the process can be found in the public notice below: Public notice: https://www.sigaa.ufs.br/sigaa/public/programa/noticias_desc.jsf?lc=pt_BR&i… Prof. César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño, PhD Researcher Responsible for the Project UFS/FAPESP -- OBSCOM/UFS Observatório de Economia e Comunicação Projeto Governança Econômica de Plataformas <https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/auxilios/111180/a-governanca-economica-das-redes-di…> Processo Fapesp: 21/06992-1 Contato: regulacao.ufs.fapesp(a)gmail.com Site: www.obscomplataformas.com.br Universidade Federal de Sergipe

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