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Surveillance Capitalism: Do We Need A New Social Contract?
How can we reap the benefits of social media, and being connected, without surrendering all control to the digital giants who own the platforms? This is one of the key…
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The Impact Revolution: Reshaping Capitalism
Technology now enables us to measure and cost the impact on people and planet that companies create through their products, employment and operations. Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneering philanthropist,…
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Gene Editing: Great Potential, Great Concerns
Fixing errors in the human DNA could cure diseases and greatly improve health – but only for the wealthy? UC Berkeley ethicist Jodi Halpern warns of a new gap between…
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Beyond Silicon Valley
In this provocative talk, Ramesh Srinivasan, a professor at UCLA studying technology’s impact on our lives, examines how a few tech companies have built products that now influence the lives…
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The Coded Gaze: Bias in AI
In her DLD Munich 2020 talk, Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, paints an alarming picture of the racial, gender and class bias present in current AI systems.…
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Reconquering Values in the Light of Populism
In the spirit of this year's theme, experimental psychologist and Harvard professor Steven Pinker discussed reconquering values of enlightenment in conversation with journalist Andrian Kreye (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and philosophy professor Julian Nida-Rümelin (LMU Munich)…
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