User Group: Gesellschaft

  • Cyber Valley Meet-up #04

    Cyber Valley Meet-up #04

    We invite you to this relaxed meeting for all start-ups, research groups, PhD students and interested people who want to learn more about Cyber Valley. Cyber Valley Meet-up #04 will be held in cooperation with BRYCKE, a project of the business development of the city of Stuttgart. BRYCKE is a space as well as a community that connects visions, innovative products and people. BRYCKE is an open, lively, inspiring place in downtown Stuttgart where ideas are presented and brought to life together.

     

    What:

    • Pitches – Who wants to pitch their idea at the Meet-up? Feel free to contact us.
      • Pitch: BRYCKE and Business development (Sebastian Reutter, Vinz Leo Hofmann and Tobias Dürr) 
      • Pitch: LBBW Venture Capital (Markus Kazmaier)
      • Pitch: Early phase investors at Grazia Equity (Benedikt Battke)
      • Pitch: nanoAR technology, learning from nature (Zhaolu Diao)
      • Pitch: TREEO: Pioneer in nature-based climate solutions (Stefan Ferber)
         
    • Open discussion and exchange

    … while enjoying pizza, salad, and a cold drink of your choice. We would also like to know what your expectations are for Cyber Valley.

     

    When?

    Thursday, 20 April 2023, 17:00–19:00 CEST.

     

    Where?

    BRYCKE

    Schmale Straße 9-13
    70173 Stuttgart

     

    Registration

    Please register via the registration form. The number of participants for the event is limited. Feel free to contact us if you need a transfer from Tübingen to Stuttgart and back.

    We look forward to meet you as well as sharing some food, drinks and stimulating conversations!

     

     

  • Symposium „Social Justice and Technological Futures“

    Theorien zu sozialer Gerechtigkeit sind wichtige Instrumente, um den Herausforderungen neuer Technologien wie der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) zu begegnen. Zu diesen Herausforderungen gehören z.B. die Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen und Fragen der Neutralität. Arbeiten von schwarzen Feminist:innen, Wissenschaftler:innen und Aktivist:innen aus dem Globalen Süden machen die Verflechtungen von gesellschaftlicher, wirtschaftlicher, kultureller und politischer Ungerechtigkeit bei der Entwicklung, Produktion und Verbreitung von Technologie sichtbar.

    Das Symposium wird sowohl kritische Betrachtungen dieser Entwicklungen als auch altnernative Lösungsansätze thematisieren. Wir werden zentrale Aspekte der Technologieentwicklung hinterfragen – Skalierung, Effizienz und (große) Datenaggregation – unnd gleichzeitig verschiedene  Konzepte zum Thema der sozialen Gerechtigkeit in den Blick nehmen. Die Veranstaltung bietet außerdem die Möglichkeit zum Austausch und zum Knüpfen von Kontakten. Es wird interaktive Panels geben, in denen Fallstudien über verschiedene Themen rund um Technologie diskutiert werden. Die Themenspektrum ist weit gefasst: Es wird um Science Fiction, Afrofuturismus, Tech-Governance, Politik und Regulierung, Ansätze für mehr soziale Gerechtigkeit, digitalen Aktivismus, verantwortungsvolle Forschung und Innovation sowie um dekoloniale Ansätze zur Technologieentwicklung gehen.

    Die Teilnahme am Symposium ist kostenfrei. Für die Anmeldung zum Symposium und für weitere Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte per E-Mail an Laura Schelenz (sie/ihr): laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de

     

    Veranstaltungszeitraum: 02.– 03.05.2023, Universität Tübingen

     

    Veranstaltet von:

     

    Veranstalter des Symposiums:

    Vom IZEW:

    • Prof. Regina Ammicht Quinn
    • PD Dr. Jessica Heesen
    • Laura Schelenz
    • Dr. Mone Spindler
    • Dr. Ingrid Stapf
    • Sol Martinez Demarco
    • Dr. Lou Brandner
    • Dr. Saeedeh Babaii


    Vom RHET AI Center:

    • Prof. Olaf Kramer
    • Dr. Anne Burkhardt


    Vom Sonderforschungsbereicg „Bedrohte Ordnungen“:

    • Prof. Astrid Franke
    • Dr. Sarah Lohmann

  • Online-Vorlesung: „Brave New Storyworlds“

    Both texts act as simulations to explore these challenges and reflect upon challenges of co-existing with emerging technologies and intelligent systems, albeit in different time periods, and adversely the consequences of these systems sharing spaces with us as humans. Ishiguro’s Klara, for instance, exemplifies the ethical concern of not being wholly accepted within her society, since she is ultimately disposed of and ends up in a landfill at the end of Klara and the Sun. Similarly, Robbie is disposed of and replaced with a better model despite saving Gloria's life. Despite his seemingly "human" characteristics, Robbie is still rejected due to technophobic fears of the machine. Reading these literary narratives as models for story-worlds / world-making also enables the reader to predict and explain both human and robotic behaviour within these social contexts. 

    Organised by the Literature and Science forum, University of Stuttgart. 

     

    More Information: bit.ly/3YS2CSz 

  • Ausstellung: Cyber and the City

    Ausstellung: Cyber and the City


    The Exhibition

    Twelve students of Empirical Cultural Studies and 20 students of the Master's programme Machine Learning have developed and produced this exhibition together with the Stadtmuseum within three semesters. The exhibition clarifies the facts and developments and provides space for debates about the use and misuse of the new technologies. Hands-on stations show visitors how machine learning works and how it can be used. Protagonists from the AI location Tübingen, which is part of Cyber Valley, from science, politics and business have their say, as do the critics and protagonists of the protests. With her work "Humano[i]de", the artist Sabine Bloch has created a photographic-artistic commentary on the topic especially for this exhibition, which is presented in a cabinet room.

    Cyber and the City. Artificial Intelligence Moves Tübingen
    February 11 to October 22, 2023
    Wednesday to Sunday 11:00–17:00.
    City Museum Tübingen, Kornhausstraße 10
    Free admission
    www.tuebingen.de/stadtmuseum

    Opening

    All interested people are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, February 10, from 18:00 CET at Tübingen Stadtmuseum, Kornhausstraße 10. The opening will be held in German.

    Speakers:

    • Boris Palmer, Lord Mayor of the University City of Tübingen,
    • Prof. Dr. Karla Pollmann, Rector of the University of Tübingen,
    • Students from the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies and the Master's programme in Machine Learning, and
    • Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer and Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg, representing the team of curators.

    The speeches will take place outside in front of the Stadtmuseum (in case of bad weather inside).

    Invitation to the press conference

    We cordially invite media representatives to a tour of the exhibition on Friday, 10 February, 11:00 CET, at the Stadtmuseum, Kornhausstraße 10. Museum director Wiebke Ratzeburg, curators Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer and Guido Szymanska and students from the project group will be present.

    Contact for further information

    Claudia Salden
    Universitätsstadt Tübingen
    +49 (0)7071 204-1500
    presse@tuebingen.de

    Antje Karbe
    Universität Tübingen
    +49 (0)7071 29-76789
    antje.karbe@uni-tuebingen.de