“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

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

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

Together with AGESIC, we are piloting a traceable AI system with Uruguay’s open data catalogue – so that citizens can receive verifiable answers from national data
The post New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

By Vidya Subramanian Since its inception, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made massive inroads into our everyday lives. Considered by many as one of the most significant inventions after steam engines, industrialization and the Internet, AI has permeated into almost every aspect of modern day life. What was essentially considered as a prominent […]

By Sophie Tomlinson, Deputy Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative 

NASA JPL-CaltechRoland Brockers is Professor of Modular Robotic Systems in the Control of Networked Systems group and a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology in California. On Tuesday, June 10, 2026, he will once again give a lecture for the interested public as part of his teaching stay at the university, this time on the topic “Exploring Venus: Hot Beauty or Earth’s Evil Twin?” (5:00 PM, Lecture Hall 1).

Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

The internet is dominated by this language: English. Nearly half of all websites today are in the language of Shakespeare. However, with AI technologies now enabling seamless writing and translation across multiple languages, could these technologies undermine English’s position as the world’s global and digital lingua franca? 
 

Abstract of the article (german only) published by sui generis and available open access (pdf/html):"Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) hält Einzug auch in die Justiz. Dabei ist ein breites Spektrum an Anwendungen möglich.