Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

ETH Student Insights: Drífa Atladóttir Shares her Experience Publishing a Policy Paper

  Drífa Atladóttir, ETH MSC STP alumna was interviewed by the ETH Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) on her experience in writing a policy paper for ICT4Peace. See  ...

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ICT4Peace hosted panel on new Netflix Series “The Billion Dollar Code” at Zurich Film Festival

World Premier of the new Netflix Mini Series by Robert Thalheim and Oliver Ziegenbalg on 1 October at the Zurich Film Festival

ICT4Peace is proud to have hosted the panel with the Directors Robert Thalheim and Oliver Ziegenbalg and ICTePeace’s Vice-President Anne-Marie Buzatu on the occasion of the world premiere of the new  ...

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The New EU Legislation on Artificial Intelligence: A Primer

by Prof. Thomas Burri and Dr. Fredrik von Bothmer

In this primer Prof. Thomas Burri and Dr. Fredrick von Bothmer 1) discuss the EU Commission’s proposal of 21 April 2021 of new Union legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI)  ...

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Groupthink: Are we collectively ruining democracy?

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by Transparency International New Zealand to lead a conversation on Groupthink as part of the Leadership Week of Victoria University,  ...

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Contact-tracing apps are important but less effective in a social welfare vacuum: Governments and businesses must help us to help each other

A blog post by Beatriz Botero Alcira

Contact-tracing apps are important but less effective in a social welfare vacuum: Governments and businesses must help us to help each other A blog post by Beatriz Botero Alcira1)    ...

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A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications

By Beatriz Botero Arcila, Harvard Law School

ICT4Peace is pleased to publish a paper by  Beatriz Botero Arcila on A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications Digital technologies, data-gathering and analytics are  ...

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Peacebuilding in the time of a pandemic: What lies ahead?

A conversation with Helena Puig Larauri of Build Up and Sanjana Hattotuwa from ICT4Peace

On 14 April 2020, Sanjana Hattotuwa, an Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation had a conversation with Helena Puig Larauri, Co-founder and Director at Build Up over Skype, on issues anchored  ...

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ICT4Peace Blogpost: When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19

By Anne-Marie Buzatu, Senior Advisor ICT4Peace

When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19 By Anne-Marie Buzatu[1] In these uncertain Covid-19 times, most of us have been scrambling to  ...

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CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE?

Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear.

CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE? Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear.   As a follow-up to the key note speech by  Regina Surber  ...

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Regina Surber on Corona, Technology and Human Rights

An audio recording of her presentation.

Regina Surber, Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) delivered the keynote speech at the  #SwissCognitive and @AICapitalCO virtual conference entitled “Corona, Technology and Human Rights”. Regina provided  ...

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UN Report on Digital Cooperation: ICT4Peace Contribution to UN Discussion on Global Principled and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Governance

As part of the UN Secretary General’s Digital Cooperation Recommendations Follow-Up Process, to which ICT4Peace has contributed the following Reflections and Recommendations , ICT4Peace has been invited to participate as one  ...

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ICT4Peace and WEF Global Shapers Meeting in Zurich: Building an Inclusive and Principled AI Governance

    Along with Dr. Christian B. Westermann, Leader Data & Analytics and Partner at PwC Switzerland, Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, President, ICT4Peace and Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET)  ...

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The Great .ORG Heist

Immediately after we learned on 21 November 2019  of the troubling news  surrounding the domain name .org, ICT4Peace expressed its dismay about these developments   and  joined the movement to stop  ...

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Outlining Future Challenges of Cybersecurity: CANVAS Report

Dr. Markus Christen, Head of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich, convened on 24 October 2019 the workshop on “Outlining Future Challenges of Cybersecurity – the CANVAS  ...

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New policy paper by foraus: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Kohler, Pascal Oberholzer and Nicolas Zahn of the Swiss Think Tank foraus published the policy paper: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence The executive summary of the paper notes: “Artificial  ...

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ICT4Peace Lecture at ETH on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and UN negotiations

On July 18, 2019, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and  Technololgy (ZHET)   gave a one-hour lecture on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the United Nationals  ...

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ICT4Peace on Emerging Security Issues at New Haven School of Jurisprudence Conference in Hangzhou, China.

ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited to present at the 10th International Conference on the New Haven School of Jurisprudence in Hangzhou, China. The conference – founded and led by Tulane Law  ...

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ICT4Peace on AI, Human Dignity and Inclusive Societies at ITU’s AIforGood Conference in Geneva

ICT4Peace’s Regina Surber took part in the panel ‘AI, Human Dignity and Inclusive Societies’ at ITU’s AIforGood Conference in Geneva. The panel was moderated by Megan Metzger, co-panelists were Wafa  ...

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ICT4Peace at Milano Human Rights Film Festival on “Technology Off-Limits”

Together with Professor Maria Chiara Carrozza, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) participated in a Panel on „Technology off Limits” at the Human Rights  ...

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Regina Surber participating in Panel on AI and Civilian, Transdisciplinary and International Perspectives during UN CCW/GGE

During the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts Meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva, 25-29 March 2019,  Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics  ...

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New ICT4Peace Paper : Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual

New ICT4Peace Paper: Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual ICT4Peace is pleased to announce the publication of  ...

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LAWS ICT4Peace at the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva

On behalf of ICT4Peace, Regina Surber and Emanuel Teicher participated at the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva, 25-29 March  ...

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New ICT4Peace Paper | Digital Human Security: Human beings need to be the core focus of the IT and security agenda going forward

ICT4peace, in cooperation with the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), is proud to announce its most recent paper Human security in the age of AI: Securing and empowering  ...

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Ron Deibert from Citizen Lab on ‘Three Uncomfortable Truths about Social Media’ at the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF)

ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology, sponsors of the new section Hashtag # Big data at the Zurich Film Festival, have organised on 6 October 2018 a  ...

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ICT4Peace in Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ demands an urgent public debate and regulatory engagement regarding artificial intelligence by the Swiss people and authorities

Regina Surber and Daniel Stauffacher published the following guest commentary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on 19 September 2018. Regina Surber is a Scientific Advisor to ICT4Peace and the  ...

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Ron Deibert at the 14th Zurich Film Festival: Talk on “New Media, AI and how it affects our lives“

The ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) are proud partners of the #BigData section of the 14th Zurich Film Festival. In this context, the foundation has organised a talk, which  ...

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Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’: Recording of public lecture

On 21 September 2018, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation, delivered a lecture on Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’ to a packed room in Vischer AG in Zurich, Switzerland.  ...

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Public talk on AI and fake news: Peeking into the rabbit hole

Speaker: Sanjana Hattotuwa Event details 21 September 2018, 11:30 – 13:30 Vischer AG Schützengasse 1 8001 Zürich For further information or registration please contact: annahofmann@ict4peace.org The term fake news increasingly frames our  ...

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ICT4Peace at UN Conference on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) from 27 to 31 August in Geneva

It is the third year that the ICT4Peace Foundation is taking part at discussions on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the  ...

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Understanding and Countering Disinformation, Online Falsehoods and Fake News

The Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) organised a workshop on Understanding and Countering Disinformation, Online  ...

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Dr. Serge Droz of ICT4Peace invited by the ITU GSR 2018 to participate in the Global Dialogue on AI, IoT and Cybersecurity

On 9 July 2018, Dr. Serge Droz, Member of the Board, First and Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace was invited by the ITU to participate in the ITU GSR Thematic Event on  ...

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ICT4Peace Colloquium with Professor Stuart Russell at the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET)

The ICT for Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology hosted a colloquium on 9 June 2018 with Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California,  ...

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Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous Technology (AT), Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and Peace Time Threats

The ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) are pleased to announce the publication of the paper:  Artificial Intelligence (AI): Autonomous Technology (AT), Lethal Autonomous Weapons  ...

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ICT4Peace calls for a holistic understanding of peace and security implications of autonomous technology

Regina Surber, Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), gave a lecture on Autonomous Intelligent Software Agents, LAWS and Peace-Time Threats on 16  ...

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In conversation with Ron Deibert: Cybersecurity, privacy, ethics and using technology for good

As noted on its website, since 2015, the Human Rights Film Festival Zurich takes place each year on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights on 10 December.  ...

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ICT4Peace at UN Meeting discussing Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)

From 13 to 17 November 2017, the UN’s Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) met at United Nations Offices at Geneva to discuss Lethal Autonomous  ...

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ICT4Peace Lecture on Building an International Governance for Peace and Security in Cyberspace at University of St. Gallen

As part of the University of St. Gallen Master Course ‘Geopolitics Live – Swiss Ambassadors tell it all’, former Ambassador and President of the ICT4Peace Foundation Daniel Stauffacher was invited  ...

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Screening «Black Code» & Talk «Surveillance and Privacy»

«SURVEILLANCE AND PRIVACY AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CITIZEN» The screening of «Black Code» will be followed by a conversation with Ronald Deibert (author and director of the Citizen Lab  ...

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ICT4Peace’s Regina Surber Lecture on Ethics and Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) at ETH (Live-streamed)

Regina Surber, Advisor ICT4Peace Foundation will present on 13 November at ETH Zurich the ICT4Peace’s and the Zurich Hub for Science and Technology’s (ZHET) current research on Lethal Autonomous Weapons  ...

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How to innovate responsibly in a digital world?

On 19 June 2012 ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by Oxford University’s Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT (FRRIICT) Project to participate in a panel discussion at the  ...

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