Ethical Innovation Letter 01/2023

Welcome to a new issue of the Ethical Innovation Letter, dear reader!

At the beginning of the summer term 2023, we'd like to inform you about what been going on at the Ethical Innovation Hub. This includes

• A new Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture (VEIL) series program

• Highlights of VEILs from winter term 2022/2023's are now available

• The Ethical Innovation Hub will participate in this year's YES! MINT program

• Members of the Ethical Innovation Hub successfully participated in the STS-Hub.de conference in Aachen as well as in the 1st Hybrid Societies Conference in Chemnitz.

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New Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture Series

We have an exciting program for our upcoming Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture (VEIL) series. Please click below to register for any of these talks!

This is the schedule for the upcoming summer term 2023.

• Sandra Wachter: "Biases in Machine Learning - Fairness Metrics and EU Law”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (UTC+2), May 9, 2023

• Sarah Wadmann and Klaus Høyer with Ingrid Schneider: "The Life and Death of Confidentiality”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (UTC+2), June 13, 2023

• Florian J. Boge: "Deep Learning Robustness for Scientific Discovery: The Case of Anomaly Detection”, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (UTC+2), June 27, 2023

• Mareike Smolka: "Integrating Societal Dimensions Into the Development of Neuromorphic Computing Hardware for AI”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (UTC+2), July 11, 2023

Highlights of the VEILs of the Winter Term 2022/2023

All the highlights and recordings of last term's Virtual Ethical Innovation Lectures are now available on the Ethical Innovation Hub's website. Please check them out, if you missed any of the lectures.

The Ethical Innovation Hub will participate in this year's YES! MINT program

The Ethical Innovation Hub will contribute to this year's instalment of the YES! MINT program. The program is a school competition on challenges at the interface between business and STEM subjects. It is funded the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of Science@Seas in Schleswig-Holstein. Students in grades 7–9 work together with researchers to develop their own problem analysis and vision on regional and global challenges based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

We'll be reporting on the students' work and the Ethical Innovation Hub's participation in the program.

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Publications

As per usual, we'd like to point you towards recent contributions and articles that have been written and published by members of the Ethical Innovation Hub. Members of the Hub successfully participated in the STS-Hub.de Conference, held on March 15-17 in Aachen, as well as in the 1st Hybrid Societies Conference, held on March 15–17 in Chemnitz.

Up and coming are two more contributions at the STS Conference at TU Graz.

• Herzog, C., & Blank, S. (2023). Strategic, Operative and Subsidiary Support to Transfer Responsible Research and Innovation into Medical AI-Based Innovation Ecosystems. Circulations, Integrating Ethics Panel. STS-hub.de 2023, Aachen.

• Preiß, R., Zetti, D., & Herzog, C. (2023). Expectations as Enablers? Circulations, What Makes Data Circulations Possible? Panel. STS-hub.de 2023, Aachen.

• Preiß, R., Zetti, D., & Herzog, C. (2023). Belonging as a Relevant Success Factor for E-Government? Digitalization of Society, Society and AI, Session B.15 In, out or something in between: Inclusion and belonging in digital spaces. STS Conference, Graz.

• Sonar, A., & Herzog, C. (2023). Support systems as communicative and cooperative counterparts – Towards new perspectives on trust in, trustworthiness of, and trust adjustment towards AI applications. Digitalization of Society, Society and AI, Session B.12 AI-based decision support systems for medicine and healthcare: Negotiations in development and practice. STS Conference, Graz.

• Sonar, A., & Herzog, C. (2023). Proposals for Communicative and Cooperative AI to Promote Synergies in Hybrid AI-Augmented Socio-Technical Arrangements – A Humanities Perspective. 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies, Chemnitz, Germany.