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2024 Socrates Germany Seminar

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Oct 14 – 16 2024
Briesen (Mark), Germany

Date

Oct 14 – 16 2024
12:00am

Location

Briesen (Mark), Germany
Gut Klostermühle
Mühlenstraße 11, 15518

Contact

    socrates@aspeninstitute.org
    202-736-3550

Hosts

  1. Socrates Program

The seminar will take place at Gut Klostermühle, close to Berlin, on October 14-16, 2024. To sign up, please email leadership@aspeninstitute.de for more information.

Over the 3 days of the Seminar, we will explore the impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence on democracy through philosophical thought.

If you are interested in participating, please contact leadership@aspeninstitute.de.

Good Technology – Good Democracy?

The first Socrates seminar in Germany will focus on how digital technologies now and in the future may affect our political, economic, and civil-society commitment to a fully functioning democracy, providing a forum for leaders from various professions to convene and explore contemporary issues through expert-moderated dialogue. Join us as we examine the impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence on democracy. Grounded in philosophical principles, the seminar is aimed at a diverse range of participants, offering leaders from business, civil society, politics, journalism, and tech sector the opportunity to consider the emerging and central issues of our future. The seminar aims to foster philosophical reflection on the digital age to help cultivate an internal compass on digitalization, leading to stronger decision-making for a more democratic future.

With the Socrates Seminar, Aspen Germany will honor its 50th Anniversary and demonstrate a deeper connection to the values of an open, democratic society and values-based leadership.

Moderated by Leigh Hafrey, Senior Lecturer in Behavioral and Policy Sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The seminar will take place at Gut Klostermühle, close to Berlin, on October 14-16, 2024. To sign up, please email leadership@aspeninstitute.de for more information.

Over the 3 days of the Seminar, we will explore the impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence on democracy through philosophical thought.

If you are interested in participating, please contact leadership@aspeninstitute.de.

Good Technology – Good Democracy?

The first Socrates seminar in Germany will focus on how digital technologies now and in the future may affect our political, economic, and civil-society commitment to a fully functioning democracy, providing a forum for leaders from various professions to convene and explore contemporary issues through expert-moderated dialogue. Join us as we examine the impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence on democracy. Grounded in philosophical principles, the seminar is aimed at a diverse range of participants, offering leaders from business, civil society, politics, journalism, and tech sector the opportunity to consider the emerging and central issues of our future. The seminar aims to foster philosophical reflection on the digital age to help cultivate an internal compass on digitalization, leading to stronger decision-making for a more democratic future.

With the Socrates Seminar, Aspen Germany will honor its 50th Anniversary and demonstrate a deeper connection to the values of an open, democratic society and values-based leadership.

Moderated by Leigh Hafrey, Senior Lecturer in Behavioral and Policy Sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Digital technology is radically changing just about everything we do, from raising families to running businesses. Optimists welcome this shift, arguing that technology is growing up and starting to take care of us. Are they right? What are the specific ways in which technological change is improving our individual and collective lives? What are the dark sides? Do the new technology trends we hear so much about have costs as well as benefits?