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Recent News
Shannon Vallor is Keynote Speaker at AI for Humanity and Society 2023
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program - Humanities and Society is proud to present Shannon Vallor, Professor in the ethics of data and AI at University of Edinburgh, as keynote...
How Does AI Affect our Efforts in Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – Take Part in the Discussions
Read more and register for the event Is artificial intelligence (AI) helping or hindering us in realizing the United Nation's (UN's )Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? On October 4, Wallenberg...
New Website Launched
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) launching a new website to better reflect the immense expansion over the past years. WASP-HS is proud to...
AI’s Influence on Jobs and Organizations: Expert Discussions at WASP-HS Summer School 2023
The WASP-HS Summer School, hosted by The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm from August 21 to 25, has brought together more than 70 exceptional PhD students for a dynamic exchange of...
Open Registration for AI for Humanity and Society 2023
On 14 and 15 November experts on the impact of AI on our daily lives and society meet at the annual conference AI for Humanity and Society 2023. Registration for the annual conference arranged by...
New Report on AI, Education and Children
How artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how children express and understand emotions, opportunities and challenges will generative AI in education, and the influence of...
Second DDLS and WASP-HS Joint Call for Seed Money: Three Projects Approved
During February 2023, the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) and the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society...
Participate in Workshops on the Societal Impacts of AI
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) is organizing eight interactive workshops on artificial intelligence’s (AI) societal implications...
Exploring Possibilities for WASP-HS Ukrainian Researchers
In May 2022, the Wallenberg Foundations awarded the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) a grant to facilitate the welcoming of six Ukrainian...
Exploring Possibilities for WASP-HS Ukrainian Researchers
In May 2022, the Wallenberg Foundations awarded the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) a grant to facilitate the welcoming of six Ukrainian...
New Report
AI, Education and Children
How AI has the potential to transform how children express and understand emotions, opportunities and challenges will generative AI in education, and the influence of children’s perspectives in the design of AI systems are topics discussed in the new WASP-HS report “AI, Education and Children”.
Recent Blog Posts
The Underlying Assumptions About AI Require Further Attention
Elin Sporrong summarizes her thoughts from the WASP-HS Summer School 2023 that took place at KTH Royal Institute of Technology campus on August 21-25. Currently, AI is hyped in academia, the...
The Empathic Chatbot in Medicine
Kjell Asplund, Professor emeritus in Medicine and member of the WASP-HS Board, shares his thoughts and reflections on emphatic AI chatbots in medicine and how WASP-HS contributes with new knowledge...
Why We Shouldn’t Pause Research on AI, but Instead Prioritize Multidisciplinary Research and AI Governance
Authors: Virginia Dignum, Christian Balkenius, Ingar Brink, Francis Lee, Anna-Sara Lind, Helena Lindgren (members of the WASP-HS management team). Abstract. The recent open letter from the Future of...
How Can We Ensure Algorithmic Fairness to Protect Children?
Tiina Leino Lindell, postdoctoral researcher in the WASP-HS project The Missing Teacher In AI: Involving Teachers in Metadesign of AI to Ensure FAIRness, shares her experience, and insights, from...
Exploring Potential Futures of the WASP-HS Program: From Super-Parrots to AI Beneficial for Humanity and Society
WASP-HS is summarizing the initial five years, and is making plans for the coming five years. What could then be a better start than to ask representatives of some of the leading human-centred AI...
A Call for Cross-Sectoral Research
Sarah de Heer, WASP-HS PhD student in Public Law at Lund University, shares her experience after taking part of the WASP-HS Winter Conference in Gothenburg on 15-17 February, 2023. The overarching...
Reasons for Why the WASP-HS Winter Conference Was Successful and Enriching
Johannes Geith, WASP-HS PhD student in Political Science at Stockholm University, shares insights from his experience of taking part of the WASP-HS Winter Conference in Gothenburg on 15-17 February,...
Intermediary Reflections on AI for Humanity and Society 2022
Professor Anna-Sara Lind and Associate Professor Francis Lee, both principal investigators within WASP-HS, and chairs of the annual conference AI for Humanity and Society 2022, share their...
The System World’s Colonization of the Life World – A Canopy for Research on AI
Johan Wejryd, PostDoc in Political Science at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, shares his speech at the WASP-HS AI for Humanity and Society 2022 Conference in the...
Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities and the General Discourse About AI
Teresa Ceratto-Pargman, Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at Stockholm University, and Principal Investigator of the WASP-HS project Ethical and Legal Challenges in Relationship to AI-Driven...
Open Calls
Cross-Project Collaboration – WASP-HS Call for Collaboration Between Projects
The call for Cross-Project Collaboration is aimed at WASP-HS research and PhD projects. The initiative supports research on issues that require a multidisciplinary approach and are relevant for two or more projects. Collaborations can focus on specific research problems, conceptual, methodological, or theoretical issues, or other scientific inquiries. A maximum of 100,000 SEK can be requested for one collaboration. The call is continuously ongoing and applications for collaborations between projects can be submitted at any time.
Open Positions
Doctoral student in Cognitive Science within the project Social Interaction with Autonomous Artefacts
At Lund University. Apply before 15 October 2023.
