“Artificial Intelligence” in Switzerland 2024: Rapid Diffusion and Increasing Digital Inequality

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Generative AI is Taking Over Everyday Life in Switzerland: From Experimentation to Regular Use

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Two Awards at SACM 2025 for the Media Change and Innovation Division

Internet Use as Everyday Religion on the Rise, Cyborgization Still in its Early Stages

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

In one of our very first AI Learning Labs projects, we are teaming up to explore how to design a chatbot that draws on reliable science and systemic social analysis
The post How can we build a responsible climate chatbot? first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

By Xiaoquan (Chelsea) Zhong

Giant pandas are protected as global ‘natural heritage’ and as China’s ‘national treasure.’ Christof Lammer shows how, behind the spotlight on panda diplomacy, cultural ideas about kinship – and the genealogical, genetic, and behavioural measurements built on them – redirect species conservation.

Welche Folgen hat es für unsere Demokratie, wenn Parteien verstärkt über soziale Medien und Apps kommunizieren und Unterstützer mobilisieren? Diese Frage werfen Geographen der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg und der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in einer jüngst veröffentlichten Studie auf.
Digitaler Wandel erreicht die Parteizentralen

The UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competences hosted by Stellenbosch University invites you to join the next session of its Webinar Series:
Intercultural Competence as a Foundation for Pan-African Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution: Lessons from WPDI’s work in South Africa, Uganda and South Sudan since 2012
Date: 21 May 2026
Time: 3 PM CAT

Fragments of Tactical Media is the new INC reader part of the Etherport series. You can read it online, download it as a PDF, or order it for free at home.

O LAPIN integrou a missão do Conselho Nacional dos Direitos Humanos (CNDH) no Rio Grande do Sul, que investigou os impactos socioambientais e as possíveis violações de direitos humanos associadas à instalação de data centers.

As part of the fourth IViR Science Fiction and Information Law competition, DigiCon will publish the stories of the finalists every week. The winning stories will be revealed during the CPDP 2026 conference in Brussels on 19-22 May.
The post Seventh shortlisted story of the Science Fiction and Information Law Writing Competition appeared first on IVIR.

The research project Artificial secrecy: Taking Transparency in EU Digital and Data Regulation Seriously began in January 2026. Funded by NWO, the project explores the fundamental tension between secrecy claims and transparency needs in the context of EU digital and data legislation. This short video explains what the project entails.
The post Video about Artificial Secrecy project appeared first on IVIR.

Il me fait plaisir d’annoncer que la professeure Miriam Cohen sera la nouvelle directrice du Centre de recherche en droit public à compter du 1er juin 2026.