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Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. RegisterResearch seminar with Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg Abstract In the recent

The Shadow of God and the Passage from Heaven to History - Michael Rosen

Research seminar with Michael Rosen, professor of political theory, Government Department, Harvard University. Abstract In a letter to his friend, Étienne Falconet, Denis Diderot wrote that “Posterity

Michael Rosen: The Shadow of God and the Passage from Heaven to History

Research seminar with Michael Rosen, professor of political theory, Government Department, Harvard University. Abstract In a letter to his friend, Étienne Falconet, Denis Diderot wrote that “Posterity

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Krister Bykvist: Who should care about impossibility theorems in population ethics?

Research seminar with Krister Bykvist, Professor in Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University and Institute for Futures Studies. This seminar was arranged by the Insti

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Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Wendy H. Wong, Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair at the UniveThis talk will discuss some of the key themes from We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age, which is a new book published by MIT Press. Human rights are one of the major political innovations of the 20th century. Their emergence after World War II and global uptake promised a new world in which human autonomy, community, dignity, and equality could be protected. Datafication, however, poses some unique challenges for our human rights framework because they are “sticky” and ubiquitous in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). The talk focuses on five takeaways from the book that ties AI and data to human rights.