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Digitalization and Ethics

The rapidly advancing digital transformation is changing almost all areas of our coexistence and poses new ethical challenges for entire societies. Although new technologies often make important contributions to the creation of efficient and crisis-resilient structures, automation and opaque decision-making processes simultaneously create new ethical questions. Ethical principles can provide an important basis in this context for reconciling different values and adapting ethical issues to the new conditions of digitization. At the center of the focal area Digitalization and Ethics stands the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics with the aim of developing groundbreaking answers for the big ethical questions of digitalization.

Aspen Berlin AI Conference 2021 – „Humanity Empowered: Building Resilience with AI”

In 2021, the Aspen Institute Germany concluded the Aspen Berlin AI Conference series with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and how to make societies more resilient.

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Aspen Berlin AI Conference 2020 – „Humanity Enabled: AI & the Great Economic Acceleration“

In 2020, the Aspen Berlin AI Conference explored the economic dimensions of artificial intelligence and its impact on labor, productivity, global competition, education, and social benefits.

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Aspen Berlin AI Conference 2019 – “Humanity Defined: Politics and Ethics in the AI Age”

In 2019, the Aspen Berlin AI Conference addressed ethical issues of artificial intelligence and the transformative potential for democratic countries.

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Aspen Berlin AI Conference 2018 – “Humanity Disrupted: Artificial Intelligence and Changing Societies”

The first Aspen Berlin AI Conference in 2018 focused on how governments and societies dealt with the implications of artificial intelligence in Europe, the United States, and Asia.  

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Lena Bühring

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