Digital Ethics Center (DEC) - Yale University

🚨 MEDIA ALERT 🚨 We begin the online migration process following our @Floridi. Stay tuned (and follow this thread) for more info on where to find us soon!

Day 1 at @Stereopsia: ✅ Panel: ✅ Making #XR safe and beneficial? An ongoing effort! Great to see so much interest in our panel from the interdisciplinary crowd, and have had so many interesting convos already--looking forward to more!

🎉 UPCOMING EVENT(S) 🎉 The DEC is hosting a SPRING OPEN HOUSE! Join us on January 14th, 2025, over dinner, from 5-7 PM in Sterling Library! Registration is limited to members of the Yale community. Visit yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_be… for more info.

🚨 New Working Paper: AI as Legal Persons: Past, Patterns, and Prospects. With @Floridi and @GiovanniSartor3 Open Access: lnkd.in/dPCe3YHW

🎉 CENTER NEWS 🎉 Thanks to the generosity of Tarek Sherif ’84, the NEW de Vries-Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology will examine what it means to exist in a technology-driven world. We are so grateful! Read more: forhumanity.yale.edu/news/being-hum…

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 Congratulations to our outstanding researcher, @ReneeSirbu, for being nominated to join the @WuTsaiYale Grand Challenges in Cognition cohort @Yale! We are so proud of Renée for her interdisciplinary work at the intersection of cognition and technology.

First up: Digital Ethics Center of the Universe feat. the brilliant researchers of the @DECYale (and friends): bsky.app/starter-pack/e…

Come connect with us on Bluesky! 🦋 bsky.app/profile/yalede…

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 A new article by @bambomby, @EmmieHine, @novelli_claudio, @HuwJRoberts1, and @Floridi analyzes nearly 20 countries and categorizes how they enact their digital sovereignty agendas into four different models. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📝🚨 New #publication alert! How do different countries enact their digital sovereignty agendas? Our new article analyzes nearly 20 countries and categorizes their approaches into four different models. Read the full article here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 The brilliant @EmmieHine will be speaking at @Stereopsia this year! 📣 Stereopsia is Europe’s foremost XR event, offering an annual exploration of the XR ecosystem in Brussels on 9-11 December 2024. Check stereopsia.com/registration/ for more info!

Thrilled to be awarded the Slavin Family Foundation fellowship, which provides mentorship and a grant of $5,000 to students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. A huge thank you to @Floridi and @DECYale for their support.

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 Congratulations to our Director's Fellow @NicolasGertler for being awarded the prestigious @Yale Slavin Fellowship! The Fellowship supports dedicated students in their entrepreneurship and has only been awarded to 54 students since 2015. Well done, Nicolas!

Join me and Santa Clara University for a talk this Friday on "Rethinking Human Rights in the Age of #AI and XR"! Register here: scu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Such a privilege to be in Venice with @DECYale @FondazioneGCini and a huge congratulations to @Floridi and @jessRmorley for pulling off “the most incredible conference ever” (direct quote from our attendees 😌) Also huge shoutout to @EmmieHine and @HuwJRoberts1, our rapporteurs!

Our team in Venice 💙🐶

@CohenProf @MMccradden @Harvard_Law @TheAIML @docsunny100 @QUT @HelloHeartApp @Floridi @EmmieHine @HuwJRoberts1 That’s a wrap on #GHAI2024! Closing remarks and a farewell by @FondazioneGCini President, Gianfelice Rocca 🎉

@CohenProf @MMccradden @Harvard_Law @TheAIML @docsunny100 @QUT @HelloHeartApp @Floridi A huge shoutout to our rapporteurs, @EmmieHine and @HuwJRoberts1, for their attention to detail in transcribing this symposium over the past three days. 👏👏👏👏

#GHAI2024 Day 3 thread ⚖️💻💊 @FondazioneGCini