Event

On large publishers, AI corporations and the perils of third-party funding: how science is chaining itself

Thursday, 2024/10/31, 18:15


Science is free - one might think at first glance, and that would certainly be desirable. In fact, however, science has repeatedly found itself in problematic dependencies in recent decades. These include dependence on large publishers, which the open access movement is only partially able to resolve, dependence on third-party funding for research as well as reputation, and, more recently, an increasing dependence on commercial AI tools. The keynote address will explore these dependencies and show how they can be broken.

Event organizer: Vice-Rectorate Quality and Sustainable Development, Open Science UB, Digital Humanities
Speaker: Amrei Bahr, Junior Professor of Philosophy of Technology & Information at the University of Stuttgart
Date: 2024/10/31
Time: 18:15 - 19:45
Locality: Room 220
Main building
Hochschulstrasse 4
3012 Bern
Characteristics: open to the public
free of charge

Program

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Time Program
18:15 Welcome by the Vice-Rector for Quality and Sustainable Development, Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer
18:30 Keynote by Amrei Bahr
19:15 Q&A
19:45 Outlook and conclusion of the event