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Open Call: Postdoctoral Scholarships on AI, Humanity, and Society at MIT
WASP-HS announces an open call for postdoctoral scholarships on AI, humanity, and society at MIT in collaboration with SERC. These scholarships enable promising researchers who have recently...
Life and AI at NASA – New Perspectives After Visit to Copenhagen
After taking the train south, from my home department at Chalmers in Gothenburg, I arrived in Copenhagen. A city of hygge and the best food destination in the world - according to both rankings and...
Worker Well-Being, Predictive Algorithms, and Learning From Ricardo
It is not uncommon to compare the impact of AI transformation to that of the industrial revolution. Should AI turn out to bring about economic change akin to the industrial revolution, the...
A Semester in Melbourne, Australia: Exploring Morality and AI
I want to tell you about my semester abroad in Australia. But first, a little background. I am Jakob, a 4th-year WASP-HS PhD student in practical philosophy at Lund University, working on a thesis...
Open Call: Research Initiation Grants for Data-Driven Life Sciences and Society
As part of a long-term commitment by the Wallenberg Foundations, a new call for collaborative research has been announced by Data-Driven Life Science and WASP-HS. This initiative aims to stimulate...
Professor Castellano Highlights Ethical Guidelines for Social Robots at UN AI for Good Summit 2024
At the United Nations AI for Good Global Summit 2024, Professor Ginevra Castellano from Uppsala University presented her WASP-HS research on ethical guidelines for socially assistive robots. Her...
WASP-HS Study Visit: Antidisciplinarity and its Discontents?
As part of the WASP-HS itinerary in Boston, our visits to several labs and research spaces across MIT and Harvard serendipitously centered around the Media Lab- much like design and technology...
The Human-Centred Future of AI
On May 23, leading researchers and research leaders within AI from academia and industry gathered at Grand Hôtel in Stockholm for this year's WASP4ALL conference. The highly current topic of the day...
New Report on AI and Cyber Security
Discussions from the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) event “AI and Cyber Security”, which took place on 26 March, 2024, are summarized and...
WASP-HS Research at AI Exhibition in the United States
Research funded by Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) is currently on display at an international exhibition at House of Sweden in Washington...
WASP-HS in the News
Har döda rätt till ett privatliv?
Carl Öhman
September 6, 2024
Studio Ett, Sveriges Radio
AI fyndar i svenska skogar: Med hjälp av månen
William Lidberg
September 6, 2024
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
New research highlights opportunities and challenges of AI Chatbots in Higher Education
Cormac McGrath, Alexandra Farazouli, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman
September 3, 2024
Stockholm University
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Simon Lindgren
August 30, 2024
P3 Nyheter, Sveriges Radio
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Med AI förändrar vi bilden av oss själva – men blir det lättare att hitta kärleken?
Matilda Arvidsson
August 26, 2024
Dagens Nyheter
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Professorn: AI lösning när lärarbristen ökar
Johan Lundin
August 24, 2024
Vi lärare
Debatt: Är AI det största hotet mot kvinnors självkänsla?
Virginia Dignum
August 12, 2024
Västerbottens-Kuriren
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Data After Death
Carl Öhman
August 7, 2024
The Measure of Everyday Life
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DN Debatt. ”Sverige måste återta makten över algoritmerna”
Stefan Larsson, Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg
August 5, 2024
Dagens Nyheter
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‘Intersectional hallucinations’: why AI struggles to understand that a six-year-old can’t be a doctor or claim a pension
Ericka Johnson
July 31, 2024
The Conversation
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