And for anyone interested in the future of ‘the fourth industrial revolution’ By: Tessa Boumans Introduction On April 30, 2023, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its ‘Future of Jobs’ report, aiming to explore how technology and socio-economic trends will shape the future workplace. However, it is crucial to critically…

By: Tessa Boumans In their recent Business of Fashion podcast, technology correspondent Marc Bain joins Imran Amed to discuss how generative AI (such as Chat GPT and DALL-E) might impact the fashion industry. Although they touch upon both the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence, they leave out a crucial…

By Tessa Boumans During 16–17 February 2023, the OECD hosted their Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector in Paris. As an AiPact PhD candidate, I got the opportunity to travel down and experience the debate on due diligence firsthand. For this blog post, I will not…

By Anne Heslinga and Jans Berden (22 November 2022, 14:00–18:00, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Campus Woudestein) On November 22, 2022, during the symposium ‘Navigating work in the platform economy’, two panels discussed the experiences and challenges facing gig workers. The event was organised by the Platform Labour Group, in which several…

By Tessa Boumans “I don’t want to hear about how the crisis and unemployment are abstract things anymore. I need to experience daily life first-hand. I need to see what really lives.” With these words, Marianne — lead character from the movie “Entre Deux Mondes” — justifies her going under…

By: Francisca Grommé, Justien Dingelstad, Eliana Bergamin Structural issues in healthcare are partly being addressed by start-ups and technology companies that offer AI-enabled solutions. Such companies propose practical interventions to mediate personnel shortages and a growing demand for care. For instance, by using natural language processing to automate nurses’ administrative…

‘Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge’. Immanuel Kant Umanesimo Artificial’s summer school ended the last week of July. In collaboration with the Transmedia Research Institute, the…

Last April, the Venice Biennial inaugurated the new Art edition welcoming visitors from all over the world. Among the artists, until July 3rd, we can find an unusual participant. AI-Da Robot is the first AI humanoid robot exhibiting at the Biennial. …

The societal impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) dwarfs its technological impact. Already, we see AI everywhere in our daily lives; we see it in our grocery shopping app, our entertainment streaming lists, social media feeds, our dating lives, and the list goes on. …