Our team in Venice 💙🐶

Such a privilege to be in Venice with Digital Ethics Center (DEC) - Yale University Fondaz. Giorgio Cini and a huge congratulations to @Floridi and @jessRmorley for pulling off “the most incredible conference ever” (direct quote from our attendees 😌) Also huge shoutout to Emmie Hine and Huw, our rapporteurs!

Join me and Santa Clara University for a talk this Friday on "Rethinking Human Rights in the Age of #AI and XR"! Register here: scu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 Congratulations to our Director's Fellow Nicolas Gertler for being awarded the prestigious Yale University Slavin Fellowship! The Fellowship supports dedicated students in their entrepreneurship and has only been awarded to 54 students since 2015. Well done, Nicolas!

Thrilled to be awarded the Slavin Family Foundation fellowship, which provides mentorship and a grant of $5,000 to students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. A huge thank you to @Floridi and Digital Ethics Center (DEC) - Yale University for their support.

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 The brilliant Emmie Hine will be speaking at Stereopsia this year! 📣 Stereopsia is Europe’s foremost XR event, offering an annual exploration of the XR ecosystem in Brussels on 9-11 December 2024. Check stereopsia.com/registration/ for more info!

📝🚨 New #publication alert! How do different countries enact their digital sovereignty agendas? Our new article analyzes nearly 20 countries and categorizes their approaches into four different models. Read the full article here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 A new article by Samuele Fratini, Emmie Hine, Claudio Novelli, Huw, and @Floridi analyzes nearly 20 countries and categorizes how they enact their digital sovereignty agendas into four different models. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Come connect with us on Bluesky! 🦋 bsky.app/profile/yalede…

First up: Digital Ethics Center of the Universe feat. the brilliant researchers of the Digital Ethics Center (DEC) - Yale University (and friends): bsky.app/starter-pack/e…

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 Congratulations to our outstanding researcher, Renée A. Sirbu, for being nominated to join the Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University Grand Challenges in Cognition cohort Yale University! We are so proud of Renée for her interdisciplinary work at the intersection of cognition and technology.

🚨 New Working Paper: AI as Legal Persons: Past, Patterns, and Prospects. With @Floridi and Giovanni Sartor Open Access: lnkd.in/dPCe3YHW

🎉 CENTER NEWS 🎉 Thanks to the generosity of Tarek Sherif ’84, the NEW de Vries-Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology will examine what it means to exist in a technology-driven world. We are so grateful! Read more: forhumanity.yale.edu/news/being-hum…

🎉 UPCOMING EVENT(S) 🎉 The DEC is hosting a SPRING OPEN HOUSE! Join us on January 14th, 2025, over dinner, from 5-7 PM in Sterling Library! Registration is limited to members of the Yale community. Visit yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_be… for more info.

Day 1 at Stereopsia: ✅ Panel: ✅ Making #XR safe and beneficial? An ongoing effort! Great to see so much interest in our panel from the interdisciplinary crowd, and have had so many interesting convos already--looking forward to more!