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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

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

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Maurizio Borghi, Ivo De Gennaro, Gino Zaccaria | 2025 | Routledge
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Dans le cadre du lancement de l’ouvrage Dimension éthique de l’acte de juger d’Emmanuelle Marceau et d’André Lacroix (Éditions Yvon Blais, 2026), le Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), en collaboration avec le Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) et l’Institut d’éthique appliquée de l’Université Laval (IDÉA), organise une table-ronde portant sur les valeurs qui animent les décisions des magistrats.

Data sharing is no longer a marginal issue, but a central pillar for many forms of innovation. Switzerland is well aware of this and has been systematically pursuing the goal of profitable and trustworthy “multiple use of data” since 2024 with the establishment of a “data ecosystem.” In this episode, we are talking to a Swiss data expert to find out how this is being achieved, whether Switzerland’s approach is consistent with or diverges from European regulations, and present a use case from the agricultural sector.

On a cool, sunny morning I take an Uber to the USP campus to interview Professor Roseli Figaro, from the School of Arts and Communications at the University of São Paulo. Riding through the city, the difference between the more central neighborhoods and the wealthy southern ones is immediately visible: more greenery, bigger houses, less noise, fewer people. The flip side of greater affluence is a corresponding rise in the number of assaltos—robberies—and in the state of alert of those who live there, the Uber driver tells me.

Portals such as GeoCities, Worlds, The Palace, and Habitat allowed their users to participate in an alternative reality in which, whether through supposedly naive websites, chat rooms, or metaverses, the primary goal was always to share interests and connect with people from different territories.