“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

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Be part of Bread&Net 2026!

AI Learning Labs, neurotech, public data, Open Technology Symposium, and more.
The post We are learning AI by doing – OKFN Newsletter May 2026 first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

 Interview with Colectivo Promedio
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital soveregnty in Latin America, can be read here. 

This project investigates interactions between Italian minors and AI chatbots, focusing on risks such as grooming, emotional manipulation, self-harm content with the goal of developing concrete recommendations for the protection of young users.
The post Minors and Interactions with Chatbots: Analysis of Risks in the Italian Context appeared first on Nexa Center for Internet & Society.

Auf Zeckensuche in der Oberpfalz: Forschende aus Würzburg und München werden sich dort im Juni zur Feldarbeit treffen. Das Team setzt auch High-Tech-Drohnen ein – aber nicht etwa, um einzelne Zecken aufzuspüren. Vielmehr hat es das Lebensumfeld der kleinen Blutsauger im Blick: Wälder und vor allem Waldränder.

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Ceasefire extended: Digital rights don’t pause

A year has passed since Bread&Net 2025. The questions raised in those sessions: who controls digital infrastructure, who bears the cost of platform decisions, and what accountability actually looks like in contexts of war, growing authoritarianism and repression, have only grown more pressing.

Across two days, 620 people from 39 countries worked through those questions together: in sessions on AI and surveillance, platform accountability, legal strategies, digital sovereignty, and more.

Report Breakdown – 9 – Reading the AI Index 2025Download

Author: Tjok Istri SintawatiEditor: Ayom Mratita Purbandani

The meeting of the ActiPlex consortium provided an opportunity to reflect on the project's final results and plan future collaboration.
The post Partners of the ActiPlex consortium meet in Groningen appeared first on HIIG.

KKResearchers at the University of Klagenfurt have achieved a major breakthrough in automated problem-solving with “CheckMate”. This new AI-driven technology independently develops algorithms for complex combinatorial and optimisation problems – such as those encountered in the optimal planning of industrial plants and production processes – delivering significantly better results than existing methods for “hard problems” in industrial practice.

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