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Recent News
New Report on AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030
Artificial intelligence (AI) impacts our journey in reaching the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in more ways than one. In the newly published WASP-HS report “AI, sustainability and...
Unpacking AI’s Impact: A Snapshot of AI for Humanity and Society 2023
Over 250 researchers and business representatives had registered for the AI for Humanity and Society 2023 conference at Malmö Live. The two-day conference was filled with international keynote...
Sarah Cook is Keynote Speaker at AI for Humanity and Society 2023
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) is thrilled to announce Sarah Cook as keynote speaker at the upcoming WASP-HS conference "AI for...
Sofia Ranchordas is Keynote Speaker at AI for Humanity and Society 2023
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program - Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) is delighted to announce Sofia Ranchordas as the keynote speaker for the upcoming annual WASP-HS...
Helena Lindgren New Acting Program Director of WASP-HS
Helena Lindgren, Professor in Computer Science at Umeå University, is Acting Program Director of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) from...
WASP-HS Event: AI’s Role in the Sustainable Development Goals
On October 4, 2023, The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) organized an online event titled "AI, Sustainability, and Agenda 2030". The event...
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...
New Report
AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030
AI impacts our journey in reaching the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in more ways than one. Download and read the summary from the discussion between renowned researchers from various fields.
Recent Blog Posts
The WASP-HS Annual Conference: Taking a Critical Eye on the Everyday Aspects of AI
In the past year, the discourse around AI has seemingly gone from having a strong focus on research and innovation, a concern for the more initiated, toward becoming the talk of the town, being...
Charting the Future of Sustainable Health: Navigating AI, Digitalized Bodies and Care
Irene Kaklopoulou, PhD student in the intersection of interaction design and artificial intelligence with a focus on care, health and wellbeing, at Umeå University is sharing insights from the...
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...
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
There are currently no open positions within the program.
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