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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 Study Visit: Beyond Laboratory Life in Boston
Over the course of two days, a bunch of us WASP-HS PhD students had the privilege of visiting five cutting-edge laboratories and research environments: the HCI Lab, SERC, MIT Media Lab, Autonomous...
Synthetic Data – Magic Sauce or Mind the Hype?
In 1987 Robert Kraut, then a Bell Labs scientist, asked whether and how technology can be introduced “to exploit its usefulness without exploiting its users”. More than three decades on, we continue...
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