{"title": "Digitalization as Ideology", "start": "2026-11-10T14:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/digitalization"], "description": "A public talk titled \"Digitalization as Ideology\" within the series \"How Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence Are Changing Our Society\". 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Prof. Dr. Anna Zeiter, CEO of the European platform W Social, and Uwe Hübner, partner at the coding and AI school Logiscool, discuss how the digital world can inform rather than manipulate and how children can be protected and taught to use these tools responsibly. 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The series is conceived and organised by Daniel Berndt; this session is given by Leonardo Impett. The lecture develops the concept of «neural exchange value» as the general theory of value under contemporary machine learning. 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It traces how climate became a question of society's future, how industrialization ushered in the fossil age, and why in the twentieth century a belief arose in a climate that could be technically controlled. The series concludes by discussing the idea of a post-growth society as an answer to today's social, economic and ecological challenges. It shows how ideas of progress, growth and control continue to shape our relationship with the climate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/mensch-und-klima-seit-der-neuzeit-59879/", "official_url": "https://vhszh.ch/kursangebot/detail/mensch-und-klima-seit-der-neuzeit/26W-0350-37/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0fbdedad2a357c1fb180a51688787645532957a76f9cc9a1b6c77a75d304431-600.webp"}, {"title": "Knowledge Transfer in the Age of AI", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Student Project House Zentrum", "address": "Clausiusstrasse", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/education"], "description": "An evening of workshop and panel about how AI is reshaping knowledge transfer – from professors to students, and from research into startups, industry and companies. 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