On 9 July 2025, we are looking forward to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum, Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (Umeå University, Sweden) and head of the AI Policy Lab there. In her lecture, she will address the topic “Responsible AI: Governance, Ethics, and Sustainable Innovation”.
As AI becomes increasingly autonomous and embedded in socio-technical environments, balancing innovation with social responsibility grows more urgent. How can AI remain consistent with human values and transparent?
Prof. Dignum will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Plenarsaal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), Alfons-Goppel-Straße 11, 80539 Munich. Please register here. The event will be followed by a reception. The event will also be livestreamed.
The lecture took place within the framework of the Munich AI Lectures.
About the speaker: Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum
Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden, where she leads the AI Policy Lab. She is also senior advisor on AI policy to the Wallenberg Foundations and chair of the ACM’s Technology Policy Council.
She has a PHD in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University (2004), was appointed Wallenberg Scholar in 2024, is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EURAI), and of ELLIS (European Laboratory of Learning and Intelligent Systems). She is also co-chair of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems 2.0, member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), of the UNESCO’s expert group on the implementation of AI recommendations, the OECD’s Expert group on AI, and founder of ALLAI, the Dutch AI Alliance.
She has been a member of the United Nations Advisory Body on AI, the EU’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, co-chair of the WEF’s Global Future Council on AI, and leader of UNICEF’s guidance for AI and children. Her new book “The AI Paradox” is planned for publication in 2025.