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Recent News
Shannon Vallor is Keynote Speaker at AI for Humanity and Society 2023
How Does AI Affect our Efforts in Achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – Take Part in the Discussions
New Website Launched
AI’s Influence on Jobs and Organizations: Expert Discussions at WASP-HS Summer School 2023
Open Registration for AI for Humanity and Society 2023
New Report on AI, Education and Children
Second DDLS and WASP-HS Joint Call for Seed Money: Three Projects Approved
Participate in Workshops on the Societal Impacts of AI
Exploring Possibilities for WASP-HS Ukrainian Researchers
Exploring Possibilities for WASP-HS Ukrainian Researchers

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
The Empathic Chatbot in Medicine
Why We Shouldn’t Pause Research on AI, but Instead Prioritize Multidisciplinary Research and AI Governance
How Can We Ensure Algorithmic Fairness to Protect Children?
Exploring Potential Futures of the WASP-HS Program: From Super-Parrots to AI Beneficial for Humanity and Society
A Call for Cross-Sectoral Research
Reasons for Why the WASP-HS Winter Conference Was Successful and Enriching
Intermediary Reflections on AI for Humanity and Society 2022
The System World’s Colonization of the Life World – A Canopy for Research on AI
Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities and the General Discourse About AI
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.














