The Institute for Futures Studies now has a blog named Framtider (Futures), a name it has inherited from a magazine that was previously published by the Institute. On this blog you will find posts on

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.

Wendy H. Wong: We, the Data - Human Rights in the Digital Age

Research seminar with Wendy H. Wong, Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. In this talk Wendy H. Wong discusses some of the key themes fr

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Bo Rothsteinhold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. He has also held positions at Oxford Universit

Wendy H. Wong: We, the Data - Human Rights in the Digital Age

Research seminar with Wendy H. Wong, Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. In this talk Wendy H. Wong discusses some of the key themes fr