BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WASP-HS - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wasp-hs.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WASP-HS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Stockholm BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20280326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20281029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260313T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20270117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260326T082053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T093002Z UID:21862-1773388800-1800205200@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:AI and The Paradox of Agency DESCRIPTION:Who holds the power when AI enters our lives? AI and the Paradox of Agency is curated by Sarah Cook\, WASP-HS Guest Professor\, and Museum Director Katarina Pierre\, and features new commissions by international artists\, from interactive games and immersive installations to sculptures and a drone-read hand-painted textile. \nThe exhibition is open between 13 March\, 2026 and 17 January 2027. \nArtists: boredomresearch\, Tega Brain\, Dennis Delgado\, Linda Dounia Rebeiz\, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg\, Nicolas Gourault\, Zeno Gries\, Lawrence Lek\, Rachel Maclean\, Stephen Marche\, Lauren Lee McCarthy\, Florian Model\, Yuri Pattison\, Planetary Portals\, Raqs Media Collective\, Daniel Shanken\, Caroline Sinders & Romy Gad el Rab\, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado\, and Addie Wagenknecht. Curators: Sarah Cook and Katarina Pierre. \nAI and the Paradox of Agency is produced by Bildmuseet at Umeå University with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation and WASP-HS (Wallenberg AI\, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society). \n \n Read more URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/ai-and-the-paradox-of-agency/ LOCATION:Bildmuseet ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AI-and-the-Paradox-of-Agency.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260601T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260601T173000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260513T071058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T074203Z UID:22753-1780306200-1780335000@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:Workshop - WASP-HS Research Environment “The Rule of AI” DESCRIPTION:The WASP-HS Research Environment “The Rule of AI” explores both the regulation of AI and the ways AI is transforming regulatory processes. The researchers examine the dynamics shaping AI governance\, as well as AI’s role in compliance and policy implementation. At this first interdisciplinary workshop the researchers will present their current research and discuss opportunities for future collaboration. All interested researchers are warmly welcomed. \nProgram\n \n See program\n \n \n \n \n \n Registration\nPlease register for the event to participate. \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n The Rule of AI\nWant to know more about the WASP-HS Research Environment The Rule of AI? \n \n Read more URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/workshop-wasp-hs-research-environment-the-rule-of-ai/ LOCATION:Örebro University\, Room T137 CATEGORIES:The Rule of AI — AI, Regulation, and Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AI-regulation-long-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260602T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260602T170000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260601T072622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T072625Z UID:23002-1780408800-1780419600@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Repairing Creative AI: Critical explorations of frictions\, reconfigurations\, and reflexivity DESCRIPTION:On 2 June 2026\, Anna-Kaisa Kaila defends her doctoral thesis\, “Repairing Creative AI: Critical explorations of frictions\, reconfigurations\, and reflexivity“\, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. \nSee event page. \nAbstract\nThe impact of AI technologies on cultural and creative sectors and industries is expected to increase dramatically in the upcoming years. As significant uncertainties rattle the political economy of artmaking\, not all stakeholders feel their interests and concerns are equally recognised. At stake here are not only individual career prospects but the entire horizon of our envisioned cultural-technological futures.  \n\nThis dissertation examines artificial intelligence (AI) models in creative domains\, focusing on their emerging impact on the conditions and infrastructures of artistic work. It frames the transition of this socio-technical system as an instance of a broken world\, and extends Creative AI ethics beyond abstract principles towards the situated\, lived experiences of the various stakeholders involved: artists and music communities\, as well as developers and service providers of Creative AI applications. Grounded on critical analysis and ethics of care\, the dissertation explores the tensions and transitions practising artists experience in their working environments in the context of rapid AI proliferation\, and how AI development work practices could better support artists in navigating the rapidly changing socio-technical AI landscape.  \nDrawing on six empirical case studies\, the dissertation contributes\, first\, an analysis of the frictions and reconfigured conditions of artmaking\, as experienced by Nordic AI artists in the early 2020s. Second\, it introduces care ethics to the analysis of Creative AI and proposes sustained reflexive repair as a novel conceptual lens for managing disrupted cultural data relations in AI development. Overall\, the dissertation argues that foregrounding repair can make the emergent ethical impacts of AI technologies and practices visible and help reconfigure paradigms for developing\, designing\, using\, and regulating Creative AI that foster fair market conditions for artist economies and cultivate artistic integrity and agency. \n\nSee full thesis. \nSupervisors\nAndré Holzapfel\, Associate professor\, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign Bob Sturm\, Associate professor\, Tal\, musik och hörselCecilia Åsberg\, Professor\, Linköping University \nOpponent\nBaptiste Caramiaux\, PhD\, ISIR\, Sorbonne Université\, Paris\, France URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defense-repairing-creative-ai-critical-explorations-of-frictions-reconfigurations-and-reflexivity/ LOCATION:Flodis (F3)\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28\, Stockholm\, Sweden CATEGORIES:PhD Defence,PhD Defense ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Anna-Kaisa-Kaila.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260605T131500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260605T170000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260604T141759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T141802Z UID:23096-1780665300-1780678800@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:Navigating Uncertain Futures – Sensemaking with AI in Complex System Planning DESCRIPTION:Elinor Särner defends her doctoral thesis\, “Repairing Creative AI: Critical explorations of frictions\, reconfigurations\, and reflexivity“\, on June 5\, 2026\, at Linköping University. \nSee event page. \nAbstract\nTechnological development is an integral part of human life that both shape and is shaped by society. In today’s volatile society\, anticipating and interpreting emerging changes is crucial to face future challenges. The predictive abilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support planning in such conditions. Yet AI adoption remains slow in sectors such as energy systems\, and urban development\, which are characterized by entangled dependencies\, critical social services\, and multiple involved actors and stakeholders\, making planning and management challenging. This thesis addresses key questions about how AI\, which relies on historical data\, can support future-oriented planning processes in such complex systems. From an innovation management point of view\, AI integration is organizationally challenging\, shaped by interacting internal and external dynamics – such as tasks\, workflows\, technical prerequisites\, and societal trends – calling for a holistic socio-technical perspective to ensure feasibility and desirability. \nThis thesis promotes “cooperative intelligence” emphasizing humans’ and AI’s reciprocal dependencies. AI-integration in complex system planning relies on collective sensemaking\, especially in the process of constructing meaning of potential futures and identifying possible actions to shape those futures. AI’s predictive ability can guide the navigation of uncertainty and ambiguity in this process and contribute as boundary objects in mediating meaning across domain and organizational boundaries. However\, it can also embed historic conditions and introduce new uncertainties. This duality calls for conscious involvement and negotiation among diverse actors. \nThis thesis sets out to explore how humans together with AI make sense of potential futures in complex system planning building on two empirical studies in the Swedish energy sector. The first study follows the development of an AI-prototype to assist planning of energy systems in new city districts. The second study investigates the implementation of an AI-tool to assess impacts of societal trends on the future energy system. \nThe thesis contributes to existing literature by informing how AI connects temporal dynamics of imagination and action in human-AI cooperation\, how it reconfigures cross-boundary collaboration\, develops the notion of intelligent boundary objects\, and how organizational structures need to evolve. It contributes to innovation management research\, detailing how AI-integration shapes prospective sensemaking and strengthens organizational planning capabilities. \nSee full thesis. \nSupervisors\nAnna Yström\, Professor at the Department of Management and Engineering\, Linköping UniversitySusanne Ollila\, Professor\, Entrepreneurship and Strategy\, Technology Management and Economics \nOpponent\nKirsimarja Blomqvist\, Professor of Knowledge Management\, LUT University Business School URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/navigating-uncertain-futures-sensemaking-with-ai-in-complex-system-planning/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Elinor-Sarner-PhD-Defence.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260610T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260611T130000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260324T095517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T131332Z UID:21813-1781092800-1781182800@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:The Impact of AI on White Collar Work DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event is independently organized by WASP-HS researchers and not the WASP-HS Program Office. \n \n \n \n \n \n This is the fourth interdisciplinary conference about the use of artificial intelligence in white collar work and implications for the labour market. White collar work is increasingly important in employment. Meanwhile\, it performs a number of tasks that are susceptible to AI-induced automation. At the conference\, researchers will present their current research. We welcome researchers in economics\, computer-science\, informatics\, statistics\, management\, law\, sociology\, and other related fields. To benefit the research presented\, we aim for an active and close interaction between participants\, akin to a workshop. \n \n Read more and register\n \n \n \n \n \n AI\, Structural Change and the Future of Work\n\nThe conference is partly hosted by the WASP-HS research environment AI\, Structural Change and the Future of Work.\n\n \n Read more URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/the-impact-of-ai-on-white-collar-work/ LOCATION:Katrinelunds Gästgiveri & Sjökrog CATEGORIES:AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AI-Structural-Change-and-Future-of-Work-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260612T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260612T150000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260611T065338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260611T065341Z UID:23250-1781269200-1781276400@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:PhD Defense: The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Actor Preferences\, Bargaining Dynamics\, and Institutional Design DESCRIPTION:On 12 June 2026\, Johannes Geith defends his doctoral thesis\, “The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Actor Preferences\, Bargaining Dynamics\, and Institutional Design“\, at Stockholm University. \nSee event page. \nAbstract\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) poses one of the most consequential governance challenges of the 21st century. Consequently\, a range of actors\, including states\, international organizations\, and non-state actors\, recognize AI as a critical domain for strategic competition and risk mitigation. While policymakers around the world grapple with the question of whether and how to regulate AI\, the focus of attention has recently shifted to the global level. Yet to date\, we lack systematic knowledge about the patterns and drivers of global AI governance. To that end\, this dissertation provides a systematic analysis of three areas of the governance process that hold considerable promise for deepening our understanding of the global governance of AI: actor preferences\, bargaining dynamics\, and institutional design. Through four independent papers\, this dissertation makes substantive theoretical and empirical contributions to address shortcomings in prior research. \nTheoretically\, it develops novel and testable arguments about the global governance of AI. Empirically\, it spearheads a comprehensive analysis of global AI governance through large-scale data collection efforts for each of the singular papers\, utilizing various methods for descriptive and explanatory analysis. The dissertation finds that global AI governance is characterized by three core patterns: heterogeneous actors\, institutional fragmentation\, and a predominance of non-binding rules. Two factors emerge consistently across the papers as drivers of these patterns: divergence of interests among relevant actors and uncertainty about AI. This dissertation makes contributions to three overarching bodies of literature: AI governance\, global digital governance\, and global governance. \nSee full thesis. \nSupervisors\nJonas Tallberg\, Stockholm UniversityMagnus Lundgren\, University of Gothenburg \nOpponent\nDaniel Nielson\, The University of Texas at Austin URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defense-the-global-governance-of-artificial-intelligence-actor-preferences-bargaining-dynamics-and-institutional-design/ LOCATION:Hörsal 10 (auditorium)\, Building E\, Stockholm University\, Universitetsvägen 10 E\, Stockholm\, Sweden CATEGORIES:PhD Defence,PhD Defense ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260616T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260616T170000 DTSTAMP:20260721T151758 CREATED:20260427T115227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T102013Z UID:22553-1781625600-1781629200@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:AI and Society: Fresh Perspectives from PhD Graduates DESCRIPTION:A new batch WASP-HS PhD students have defended their thesis adding to the growing perspectives an insight into the implications and entanglements of AI for society and humanity. We welcome you to the third event in the WASP-HS seminar series AI and Society: Fresh Perspectives from PhD Graduates where PhD students who have recently defended their thesis present their new findings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Frictions and Fractures: Repairing Creative AIAnna-Kaisa Kaila \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Human–AI Cooperation in Complex PlanningElinor Särner \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The idea of responsible tech sounds great in theory\, but who actually takes the responsibility for developing the tech worth building? Kristina Popova \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Diverging Laws on Health Data GovernanceZhicheng He \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How AI Changes Science at NASA Alicja Ostrowska \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Skin that No Longer FitsDominika Lisy \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registration\nPlease register to take part of the event. \n \n Register URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/ai-and-society-3-fresh-perspectives-from-phd-graduates/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AI-and-Society-Fresh-Perspectives-from-PhD-Graduates.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR