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New centre for AnimalHuman Studies
12-04-2024
In the natural sciences animals are studied as objects, and in the social sciences and the humanities, humans are central.
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Episode 1: Ethics and AI
28-03-2023
… her to unwind and to temporarily recharge away from her professional activities. She also told us about how she became interested in ethics and philosophy which all began with a quite different dream of becoming a journalist and a dabble into documentary filmmaking! Dr. Gabriels then described her research interests in teaching morality to machines as well as online shaming and abuse. She argued in her books "Regels voor Robots" and "Conscientious AI" that technology is not neutral and that … biased human decision-making can influence the design of algorithms. The behaviour of these algorithms can have effects that are ethically and morally contentious when perceived by humans. A quite surprising and interesting example is given about a misbehaving soap dispenser! In one of her articles on online shaming she explained her view that online abuse and offline abuse are related and that online abuse can have its origins in the real-world and vice versa. She also opined that, as a culture, …
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A passport is not a panacea*
28-03-2023
*but it can make a big difference in an immigrant’s life
It takes five years of uninterrupted stay in the Netherlands for a foreigner to become a Dutch citizen through naturalisation.