{"title": "INFLECTION zurich: Who Rules the World in the Age of AI", "start": "2026-10-28T16:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-28T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Student Project House Zentrum", "address": "Clausiusstrasse", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.inflectionzurich.ch/aujyr/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/economics"], "description": "A talk in the INFLECTION Zurich series about the power of big tech corporations in the age of AI and the cloud. Dr. Cecilia Rikap, an economist at University College London, draws on her book \"The Rulers\" to show how Amazon, Microsoft, and Google use cloud credits, strategic acquisitions, and open-source strategies to create lasting dependencies — among innovators and even sovereign nations. She examines how these corporations gain political sway. The talk closes by asking how technology can be reclaimed for the public good. 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Using an SRF experiment, it shows how the algorithms of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube operate as inscrutable black boxes that shape opinions, amplify emotions and can pull people into radical online worlds within minutes. 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Samuel Goldberg from Stanford University discusses market expansion and its effects on creative goods and copyright. The talk is part of an interdisciplinary lecture series on the law and economics of innovation, organised by ETH Zurich and the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich. 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Legal and political effects of current national and international events as well as possible approaches and solutions are also discussed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/chess-lecture-digitale-souveranitat-im-hochschulumfeld-vom-s-33339/", "official_url": "https://www.chess.uzh.ch/de/veranstalten.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e0550a450be368a3c51c62735fc43754eea9a78393bb77e3fed06b67ff4484a0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "KI: Unstillbarer Energiehunger oder Schlüssel zur Effizienz?", "start": "2026-11-03T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentrum Glockenhof", "address": "", "price": "CHF 40.00 regulärer Unkostenbeitrag; CHF 10.00 für Studierende und Lernende (Nachweis am Einlass, ko", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://microsite.guidle.com/hosted/template_portal/microsite/en/mr_e8X87y/ki-unstillbarer-energiehunger-oder-schluessel-zur-effizienz-zurich_ASfixBh", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "An evening event by Forum Energie Zürich at Zentrum Glockenhof with three talks and a moderator. 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The keynote is given by Martin Meyer of Adecco Group Switzerland, while the sessions with Julia Herz, Tünde Lukacs and Jane Piper cover working with AI, leadership and shaping one's own career. 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Journalist Annika Brockschmidt examines the alliance between tech elites from Silicon Valley and radical Christian nationalists of the MAGA coalition, who together threaten pluralist democracy. She also shows how social media serve the religious right as recruiting tools to persuade young women to work against their own rights. Afterwards, Roland Meyer and Kathrin Trattner join a discussion moderated by Elia Blülle (Die Republik); entry is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/religion-macht-und-social-media-wie-christliche-nationaliste-33361/", "official_url": "https://www.digitalreligions.uzh.ch/de/news/news/261111_event-brockschmidt.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41371b0ecce4b37d102d75a0e121cbe66885a1a65a35f423e6eba7d55b09e455-1200.webp"}, {"title": "State of Asia Address", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:15:00+01:00", "place": "Restaurant UniTurm", "address": "Rämistrasse 71", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/asiasocietyswitzerland/2213894", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics"], "description": "The State of Asia Address is an annual talk examining the forces reshaping Asia and the international order. It is co-organized by Asia Society Switzerland and the University of Zurich, which in 2026 welcome Kevin Rudd, Global President and CEO of Asia Society and a former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia. He will discuss China's growing power, its competition with the United States, economic security and artificial intelligence, and what they mean for Europe. The event is open to the public and free of charge; registration does not guarantee a seat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/state-of-asia-address-33342/", "official_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/asiasocietyswitzerland/2213894", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0663f94369b246607321432fd6146c79ffa6b762397d63893f42a7ca7645ee56-1200.webp"}]}