Looking back over the spring and summer, discussions around AI Ethics were particularly prominent and engaging. I had the pleasure of contributing to the University of Vienna’s Anthropocene Lecture Series with a talk titled AI, Ethics & the Anthropocene. In addition, I joined a panel at kärnten.museum in Klagenfurt on Künstliche Intelligenz & Atomkraft: Ein ethisches Dilemma im Anthropozän. And at Techforum Millstatt 2025 (Video of the event) my research group presented our AI Game as part of the interactive exhibition, and I took part in a panel on Digital Transformation, sharing reflections on AI & Society: Humans, Machines, and Ethical Dilemmas. It was a great opportunity to connect across the university-industry divide and I learned about AI-infrastructure-building in Austria.

Currently very much looking forward to the STS Hub 2025 in Berlin, 11-14 March 2025. Matthias Wieser and myself are chairing a panel on „Drone Interactions & Autonomy: Diffraction of the Drone Gaze“ (Panel no.38).

Die 9. Arbeitstagung der Kommission Digitale Anthropologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft findet vom 16. bis 18. September 2024 an der Universität Vechta statt: https://www.uni-vechta.de/kulturwissenschaften/tagung Meine Keynote zum Thema „New Data Politics: Ethnographische Forschung mit/zu digitalen Methoden“ wird in den Proceedings veröffentlicht werden.

Thank you again, Carsten Ochs, Nils Zurawski and Doris Allhutter for visiting us at D!ARC in Klagenfurt to provide insights on Democracy & AI, Digitization in Policing, and Automated Welfare Futures!

https://www.aau.at/en/digital-age-research-center/interdisciplinary-formats/darc-lectures

Nächste Woche findet die Jahrestagung des Forschungsschwerpunkts digitale_kultur der FernUniversität in Hagen und der Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe (DFG): „Das Phänomen der Interaktion in der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (MMI)“ statt, mit einem spannenden Programm zum Thema „Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen in digitalen_kulturen„.

I have just started my new job as a Professor for Humanwissenschaft des Digitalen at the Digital Age Research Center (D^!ARC) at Klagenfurt University.