Dear colleagues,

Please see the call for participation in a Summer School for PhD & master students on the topic “What Computers and AI can’t do: Reflecting on Errors, Malfunctioning, and Limitations of Technology in the Digital Age” (5 cp), organized and hosted by the Department of History at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, to take place June 17-21, 2024: https://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.de/unitesummerschool

Topics include: The Public Discourse on Errors, Limits, and Malfunctions in the Digital Age; Concepts of Error; Tackling Errors/Finding Errors/Scientific Culture of Error; and Ethical and Scientific Limits of Computers and AI: What They Can’t and Shouldn’t Do.

The deadline for applications is March 31, 2024. Please help spread in your networks.

All the best,

Sabine

Dr. Sabine Höhler

Professor of Science and Technology Studies

Head of Department of Philosophy and History

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

School of Architecture and the Built Environment

Department of Philosophy and History

Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment

Teknikringen 74 D

SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Fon: +46 8 790 87 41

Email: sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se