Summer School „AI and Human Values: Exploring technological, social, and normative perspectives“

Ausschnitt eines roten Gesichts in Spray-Optik schräg nach oben rechts blickend vor einem blauen Hintergrund mit hellen SchaltkreisenMarsilius Academy 2025 | Waldpark

21. - 27.09.2025

In cooperation with the Marsilius Kolleg and the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities, our linguistics team has designed a summer school for September this year entitled "AI and Human Values: Exploring technological, social, and normative perspectives", which will examine the topic of AI and (moral) values from an interdisciplinary perspective. The target audience is doctoral students and advanced master's students from all disciplines who are engaged in research on the topic of AI. We have now finalized the program and have been able to attract exciting speakers from the fields of computer science, computational linguistics, theology, ethnology, philosophy, medicine, psychology, cultural studies, and law. We are very excited about the wonderfully interdisciplinary program and the different perspectives on the topic of AI and Human Values.

  • September 21-27, 2025, Marsilius-Kolleg, Heidelberg
  • Homepage including preliminary program, speakers, further information, and application portal
  • Organization: Marsilius Kolleg and Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities
  • Event language: English
  • Target audience: Doctoral candidates and advanced master's students from all disciplines whose research deals with the topic of AI
  • Application deadline: June 27, 2025
  • Conditions: 100 euros (including accommodation, catering, and conference dinner)

Brief description and objectives: The rapid development of generative AI is having a significant impact on modern society. This is increasingly raising questions about underlying values and ethical, legal, and social implications. The aim of the summer school is to critically examine the normative foundations of generative AI and discuss which values are embedded in its development and how these can be reflected and modeled. The summer school offers an interdisciplinary space to combine perspectives from (among others) computer science, linguistics, philosophy, theology, medicine, and law. It is aimed at doctoral students and advanced master's students from all disciplines who are engaged in research on the topic of AI and want to contribute to an in-depth discourse on values and norms in AI design and build sustainable scientific networks.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Maria Becker (maria.becker∂gs.uni-heidelberg.de) at any time.

 

Maria Becker