Another Week | Another Tool - A Digital Humanities Barnraising

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University proposes a reprise of One Week | One Tool for summer 2013. Another Week | Another Tool: A Digital Humanities Barnraising will once again bring together a group of twelve digital scholars, students, librarians, and museum professionals of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to CHNM to build something useful and useable in seven days. Not for the faint of heart, a one-day course of training in the principles of open source software development will be followed by an intense six days of doing and a year of continued community engagement, development, testing, dissemination, and evaluation. Comprised of designers and programmers as well as project managers and outreach specialists, the group will conceive a tool, outline a roadmap, develop and disseminate a modest prototype, lay the ground work for building an open source community, and make first steps toward securing the project's long-term sustainability

Documenting the Use of Generative AI in Digital Humanities Workflows

peer reviewedThe paper intends to foster discussions within the DARIAH community on the possibilities of building and sharing documentation that informs the readers about the use of generative AI in DH workflows

No digital citizens without digital humanism

Using a Digital Humanism viewpoint when teaching informatics is the key to face the challenges posed to our society by digital technologies. This is particularly relevant for education in school, where children are going to learn about the basic principles and concepts of the discipline. Considering the potential of digital machines and the advancement of the generative artificial intelligence systems, it is essential that school curricula are aimed at developing the proper attitude toward digital technologies since the early years. This means paying attention to both technical and social elements of the digital systems and preparing teachers for this challenge adequately

Visual neuroprosthetics, digital humans and the law of evidence

The paper explores some of the evidential implications of neuro-implants that assist or restore vision from the perspective of evidence law. As people with disabilities are disproportionately victims of crime, and often experience secondary victimisation during trials where their credibility is often questioned, these technologies raise the question of how evidence law should treat “technologically mediated” witness accounts

TA for human security: Aligning security cultures with human security in AI innovation

This research article addresses the growing concerns about digital technologies and artificial intelligence and their impact on human security. It explores the inadequacies of current digital technology regulation in protecting fundamental human rights. The authors present a typology of three “security cultures for digital technology” based on Mary Kaldor’s work on human security, linking international relations and critical security studies with technology assessment (TA). The following cultures are distinguished: dual use, cybersecurity, and TA. The article concludes with a call for collaborative efforts among policy makers, industry, and civil society to prioritize a human-centered approach and global cooperation mechanisms and to strengthen the TA culture in order to address AI innovation without compromising human rights.This research article addresses the growing concerns about digital technologies and artificial intelligence and their impact on human security. It explores the inadequacies of current digital technology regulation in protecting fundamental human rights. The authors present a typology of three “security cultures for digital technology” based on Mary Kaldor’s work on human security, linking international relations and critical security studies with technology assessment (TA). The following cultures are distinguished: dual use, cybersecurity, and TA. The article concludes with a call for collaborative efforts among policy makers, industry, and civil society to prioritize a human-centered approach and global cooperation mechanisms and to strengthen the TA culture in order to address AI innovation without compromising human rights

From Joseph Weizenbaum to ChatGPT: Critical Encounters with Dazzling AI Technology

The paper considers AI systems from a use perspective. It focuses on conversational chatbots, starting from Weizenbaum’s ELIZA and sketching the major scientific advances leading up to ChatGPT. The main discussion builds upon several experiment-reflection cycles conducted by the author to explore ChatGPT as a knowledge resource. The analysis considers ChatGPT responses in terms of accuracy, structure, context, perspective, and bias. The critical evaluation begins with the observation that ChatGPT produces a mixture of clear and precise results and arbitrary misinformation without ever clarifying its own scope. This leads to the identification of the system’s key problem, namely, how it contends with truth, which involves replacing the idea of truth with a probabilistic surrogate based on textual correlation. In responsible use, a system like ChatGPT must be embedded in a human learning culture. A framework for this process should include an insistence on truthfulness, an impulse towards enhancing human competence, and strengthened responsibility structures within communities.This publication has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII121, 16DII122, 16DII123, 16DII124, 16DII125, 16DII126, 16DII127, 16DII128 – “Deutsches Internet-Institut”)

Adult education centres in the age of AI. Digital humanism as a compass for holistic digital education

Technik sei kein Selbstzweck. Vielmehr müssten technologische Fortschritte Lernprozesse unterstützen und KI-Tools als ihre Werkzeuge dienen. Die Autorinnen fordern in diesem Beitrag eine ganzheitliche digitale Bildung. Diese orientiert sich an Selbstbestimmung, berücksichtigt ökologische und Diversitätsaspekte und vermeidet Technologieabhängigkeit. Das vorgestellte „Wiener Manifest für Digitalen Humanismus“ bildet dafür einen Handlungsrahmen. Die Autorinnen grenzen den Digitalen Humanismus von Konzepten wie Transhumanismus und Posthumanismus ab: Digitale Werkzeuge sollten Menschen nicht verändern oder ersetzen, vielmehr müsse der Mensch der Maßstab technologischer Entwicklung bleiben. Volkshochschulen können mit Kursen zur kritischen Medienkompetenz hierzu beitragen und Lernende aktiv an der Entwicklung und Anpassung digitaler Werkzeuge beteiligen. Lernende werden so befähigt, KI-Technologien reflektiert einzusetzen und manipulierte Inhalte zu erkennen. Lehrende agieren dabei als „Digital Guides“, wie die Autorinnen ausführen. (DIPF/Orig.)Technology is not an end in itself. Instead, technological progress should support learning processes and AI should serve as its tool. In this article, the authors call for holistic digital education. This type of education is oriented to self-determination. It takes into account aspects of ecology and diversity and avoids being dependent on technology. The Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism presented here offers a framework for action. The authors distinguish digital humanism from concepts such as transhumanism and posthumanism: Digital tools should not change or replace humans; instead, the human being must remain the standard for technological development. Adult education centres can contribute by offering courses on critical media literacy and learners can participate actively in the development and adaptation of digital tools. Learners are then able to use AI technology deliberately and recognize manipulated content. Trainers act as “digital guides,” as they are referred to. (DIPF/Orig.

Governance Ethics in the Cyber Domain

It is not under question the added value and the achievements due to cyber technology (societal, intellectual, etc.); we look at cyber technology from the humanities side fostering a Digital Humanism approach. Posing our focus on processes that have led to governance agreements. Starting from internet governance, ongoing digital transformation to reach AI Governance Ethics and a selection of experiences carried out by international organisations, nations and single states