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Initial event: ‘Vienna Lectures’ at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Is the ‘digital world’: open, fair, diverse, sustainable, democratic?
Digital technologies have fundamentally changed our world in recent decades. Human
development has always happened via disruptions and radical changes, as triggered by
groundbreaking technical developments, natural disasters or even wars. Today, technical
developments open up unprecedented opportunities, but also risks. They challenge us as a
society, question our view of humanity and our values and agreements. Knowledge transfer
and knowledge dissemination must therefore be democratic and participatory as well as
interdisciplinary and transnational in order to meet the challenges we are facing as a society.
Above all, however, it also requires discourse on a broad societal level, because these
developments affect us all. Nothing less than ‘being human’ is at stake. But what does that
mean in the age of AI?

Welcome:

Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna City Councilor for Science and Culture

Introduction:

Anita Eichinger, Director Vienna City Library

Panel:

Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna City Councilor for Science and Culture
Edward Lee, Prof. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Christine Marizzi, Director of Community Science, BioBus Inc. New York
Anya Schiffrin, Director, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Gediminas Urbonas, Prof. Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claudia Wultsch, City University of New York, American Museum of Natural History, ASciNA

Moderation:

Wolfgang Renner, Wiener Zeitung

A cooperation between Wiener Zeitung, Vienna City Library and the
Austrian Cultural Forum New York