Three robotic heads with human features, all called Tengai, next to each other Photo (detail): Tengai Unbiased

Humanoide robots “Tengai assesses everyone the same way”

How do you completely eliminate bias in recruiting situations? With robots - claims software developer Vanja Tufvesson. She has founded an NGO, which organizes Coding Camps for women-identifying people, and has worked on the development on the world’s first unbiased robot.

Vanja Tufvesson smiles into the camera, she is sitting and wearing a black leather jacket Photo (detail): Tengai Unbiased

Vanja Tufvesson

Software developer and NGO-founder
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Cough into your mobile phone and it will tell you if you should get tested: Will AI revolutionise the healthcare sector?

Artificial Intelligence and Covid “AI is not a magic bullet”

What place does artificial intelligence have in the health sector, where human interaction is so important? In our interview, scientist Rahul Panicker points out some of the problems of AI - and how it could still help us in times of pandemics.

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Exclusive Inclusion?

Why is the internet still full of barriers for people with disabilities? Or isn’t it? NGO founder Tiffany Brar, video influencer Daniel Jones, app developer Javier Montaner and researcher Shai Fuxman discuss the tensions between digital possibilities and their actual realisation – and what everyone in society can do.
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Retweet and remember: digital approaches to the Holocaust

How does our digital age shape the memory of the Holocaust? Survivor Abba Naor, German scholar Ernst Hüttl, press officer of the Auschwitz Memorial Pawel Sawicki and student Emely Fuchs talk about experiences, opportunities and risks.

The largest artificial neuronal networks operating in computers today have around one billion cross-indexations, a thousand times that of their predecessors just a few years ago. But this is practically insignificant compared to the human brain. It is roughly equivalent to just one cubic millimetre of brain tissue.

Peter Glaser in his essay “Master or Minion?”
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Nanjira Sambuli A fair internet?

The image of a reality divided into an analog world of trams, afternoon coffee and postcards, on the one hand, and a digital world of ones and zeros, online shops and World of Warcraft gamers, on the other, is passé.

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Social Robotics Learning how to live with robots

When machines become “social” interaction partners, we need to revisit our understanding of sociality. This is a conversation with the philosopher, Johanna Seibt, Aarhus University, who works in the new research area of “robophilosophy”​and launched the biennial conference, which in 2020 took place online from 18 to 21 August.

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Artificial Intelligence Generation A=Algorithm

With the use of artificial intelligence, society will change from the ground up. The Project “Generation A=Algorithm” deals with exactly these changes and their effects on a Generation A that is still in its infancy.

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