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DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ECOSOC Special Meeting (TV UN)
DESCRIPTION:The Special Meeting of the Economic and Social Council on Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring together Member States\, UN system experts\, private sector leaders\, innovators\, and civil society stakeholders to follow up on the outcomes of the Summit of the Future\, including the Global Digital Compact. \nIt will showcase the potential for AI to accelerate sustainable development in the Global South\, paying special attention to the role of strategic investments\, partnerships\, and international cooperation in addressing foundational needs and capacity development. The meeting will include an opening\, two interactive sessions – one in the format of a fireside chat and the other as a panel discussion\, and a closing. \n– Fireside Chat: Emerging Trends of AI Innovations and the SDGs\n– Panel Discussion: Building Foundations for AI in the Global South \nLinks:\nECOSOC Special Meeting on Artificial Intelligence \n10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/artificial-intelligence-ai-ecosoc-special-meeting-tv-un/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT,Maatschappij,UN
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250509
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
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SUMMARY:10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION:The tenth annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) will be held from Wednesday\, 7 May\, to Thursday\, 8 May 2025. \nThe Forum will be convened by the President of ECOSOC His Excellency Mr. Bob Rae\, who had appointed two co-chairs – H.E. Mr. Omar Hilale\, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations and H.E. Ms. Elina Kalkku\, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations. As per its mandate\, the Forum will be organized by the UN interagency task team on STI for the SDGs (IATT)\, convened by UN-DESA and UNCTAD\, and the 10-Member Group of high-level representatives appointed by the Secretary General. As in previous years\, the theme of the STI Forum will be closely aligned with that of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)\, to be held from Monday\, 14 July\, to Wednesday\, 23 July 2025\, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. The STI Forum will have an exclusive focus on the role and contributions of science\, technology and innovation to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The 2025 HLPF will hold in-depth reviews of five SDGs: \nGoal 3. Ensure health and well-being for all; Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; \nGoal 8. Promote sustained\, inclusive and sustainable economic growth\, full and productive employment and decent work for all; \nGoal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans\, seas and marine resources for sustainable development; and \nGoal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. \nAccordingly\, the theme for the STI Forum 2025 is: “Advancing sustainable\, inclusive\, and evidence-based\, science and technology solutions and innovations for the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs for leaving no one behind”. \nLinks:\n10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals \nSTI Action Day 2025 (TV UN) \nArtificial Intelligence (AI) – ECOSOC Special Meeting (TV UN)
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/10th-multi-stakeholder-forum-on-science-technology-and-innovation-for-the-sustainable-development-goals/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT,Maatschappij,UN
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250612
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20250611T124658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250702T130916Z
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SUMMARY:Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI - publication
DESCRIPTION:The Dutch city of Amsterdam thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms\, its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair? \n\nThere’s an ongoing debate about whether algorithms can ever be fair when tasked with making decisions that shape people’s lives. Over the past several years of efforts to use artificial intelligence in this way\, examples of collateral damage have mounted: nonwhite job applicants weeded out of job application pools in the US\, families being wrongly flagged for child abuse investigations in Japan\, and low-income residents being denied food subsidies in India. Proponents of these assessment systems argue that they can create more efficient public services by doing more with less and\, in the case of welfare systems specifically\, reclaim money that is allegedly being lost from the public purse. In practice\, many were poorly designed from the start. They sometimes factor in personal characteristics in a way that leads to discrimination\, and sometimes they have been deployed without testing for bias or effectiveness. In general\, they offer few options for people to challenge—or even understand—the automated actions directly affecting how they live. \nWhen Amsterdam set out to create an AI model to detect potential welfare fraud\, officials thought it could break a decade-plus trend of discriminatory algorithms that had harmed people all over the world. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while protecting citizens’ rights. They followed these emerging best practices and invested a vast amount of time and money in a project that eventually processed live welfare applications. But in their pilot\, they found that the system they’d developed was still not fair and effective. Why? Lighthouse Reports\, MIT Technology Review\, and the Dutch newspaper Trouw have gained unprecedented access to the system to try to find out. In response to a public records request\, the city disclosed multiple versions of the algorithm and data on how it evaluated real-world welfare applicants\, offering us unique insight into whether\, under the best possible conditions\, algorithmic systems can deliver on their ambitious promises.   \n\nLinks:\nInside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI \nAmsterdam wilde met AI de bijstand eerlijker en efficiënter maken. Het liep anders
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/inside-amsterdams-high-stakes-experiment-to-create-fair-welfare-ai-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,Amsterdam,IT,Maatschappij,Mensenrechten,Privacy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251003T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251003T205100
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20251003T091200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T091253Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Academy LIVE - AI Workflows in Lightroom (TV webcast)
DESCRIPTION:Links:\nZoom \nOefenbestanden Livestream 3 oktober 2025
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/zoom-academy-live-ai-workflows-in-lightroom-tv-webcast/
CATEGORIES:AI,Foto
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20251013T201850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T203434Z
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SUMMARY:Het digitale debat
DESCRIPTION:Het is bijna tijd voor de verkiezingen\, daarom werd in Den Haag een debat over digitale zaken georganiseerd. \nHet belang van dit grote thema is nog niet overal goed duidelijk. Bijvoorbeeld niet genoeg binnen de politieke partijen zelf\, terwijl verkiezingen online worden beïnvloed. Wat zijn dan die digitale zaken? Nou bijvoorbeeld (en er zijn er zoveel meer): \n\nPlatforms maken winst op polarisatie en de samenleving moet opdraaien voor de schade;\nOnze hele samenleving draait op computers en infrastructuur\, terwijl we het niet voor elkaar krijgen om het elektriciteitsnet slim in te richten;\nDe beveiliging van onze netwerken moet beter\, want er hangt – zoals we steeds vaker merken – zoveel van af;\nHoe houden we de internetverbinding betaalbaar als een paar grote partijen het voor het zeggen hebben?\nContact met de overheid moet digitaal\, maar dat lukt niet iedereen;\nAls we dan AI fabrieken optuigen: wat levert het op voor die regio (go Grun) en weten we wel waar onze investering en energie naartoe stroomt?\nBovendien: houden we ruimte over in datacenters op groene energie voor burgers en hun online communicatie?\n\nKortom\, genoeg om ons de komende tijd mee bezig te houden! \nDe geopolitieke belangen worden inmiddels gevoeld – en dat werd hoog tijd. Er komt eindelijk meer belangstelling voor lokale alternatieven. Niet alleen lokale opslag\, maar ook lokale infrastructuur en diensten. Dit is natuurlijk precies waarom Freedom bestaat en waar zij en onze partners voor strijden. Hier gaan ze richting Den Haag en gemeenten meer op in zetten. Freedom gaat ook over een andere manier van ondernemen. Het is een bedrijf opgezet en gesteund door de community. Daar mogen we trots op zijn! Dat is het verhaal dat wij vertellen: je kunt anders ondernemen en bestaansrecht hebben. Daarom bespreken we naast digitale thema’s ook zaken als crowdfunding\, steward ownership en maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen. Eerder deed Freedom onderzoek naar thema’s die zij belangrijk vinden in de verkiezingsprogramma’s. We hebben ook wel eens de websites van partijen door de internet.nl check gehaald om te kijken of ze voldoen. Wat ze nu doen? Politieke evenementen bezoeken\, debatten volgen en direct input leveren aan politici\, ambtenaren\, branche organisatie\, academie en civil society. \nLinks:\nDebat digitale zaken
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/het-digitale-debat/
LOCATION:Den Haag\, Den Haag\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:AI,Internetveiligheid,IT
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20251104T115941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T104234Z
UID:132874-1762214400-1762300799@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:Towards a future space-based\, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design - publication
DESCRIPTION:Exploring a space-based\, scalable AI infrastructure system design: Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in space. \nArtificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that could reshape our world\, driving new scientific discoveries and helping us tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. Now\, we’re asking where we can go to unlock its fullest potential. The Sun is the ultimate energy source in our solar system\, emitting more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production. In the right orbit\, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth\, and produce power nearly continuously\, reducing the need for batteries. In the future\, space may be the best place to scale AI compute. Working backwards from there\, our new research moonshot\, Project Suncatcher\, envisions compact constellations of solar-powered satellites\, carrying Google TPUs and connected by free-space optical links. This approach would have tremendous potential for scale\, and also minimizes impact on terrestrial resources. We’re excited about this growing area of exploration\, and our early research\, shared in a preprint paper “Towards a future space-based\, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design\,”\, which describes our progress toward tackling the foundational challenges of this ambitious endeavor — including high-bandwidth communication between satellites\, orbital dynamics\, and radiation effects on computing. By focusing on a modular design of smaller\, interconnected satellites\, we are laying the groundwork for a highly scalable\, future space-based AI infrastructure. Project Suncatcher is part of Google’s long tradition of taking on moonshots that tackle tough scientific and engineering problems. Like all moonshots\, there will be unknowns\, but it’s in this spirit that we embarked on building a large-scale quantum computer a decade ago — before it was considered a realistic engineering goal — and envisioned an autonomous vehicle over 15 years ago\, which eventually became Waymo and now serves millions of passenger trips around the globe. \nLinks:\nExploring a space-based\, scalable AI infrastructure system design \nGoogle bouwt datacenters in de ruimte
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/towards-a-future-space-based-highly-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251113T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251113T190000
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20251108T052937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251108T154234Z
UID:133025-1763056800-1763060400@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human (TV webcast)
DESCRIPTION:Generative AI is like a Rorschach test for anxieties about technology–be they privacy\, replacement of workers\, bias and discrimination\, surveillance\, or intellectual property. \nElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) panelists discuss how to address complex questions and risks in AI while protecting civil liberties and human rights online. Join EFF Director of Policy and Advocacy Katharine Trendacosta\, EFF Staff Attorney Tori Noble\, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director Pam Samuelson\, and Icarus Salon Artist Şerife Wong for a live discussion with Q&A. \nLinks:\nEFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/effecting-change-this-title-was-written-by-a-human-tv-webcast/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20251130T083748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T095656Z
UID:134617-1764460800-1764547199@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:VPRO #Tegenlicht – AI is coming for your feelings! (TV internet)
DESCRIPTION:Tegenlicht is een informatief televisieprogramma van de VPRO via het internet. \nDoor de VPRO wordt het programma bestempeld als documentaire op het vlak van politiek\, economie\, sociologie en wetenschap. Het programma stelt zich ten doel inzicht in de werking van de samenleving te verschaffen. \nWat gebeurt er als AI bewustzijn ontwikkelt? Filosoof Susan Schneider onderzoekt de toekomst van kunstmatige intelligentie\, de grenzen van de geest en de ethische dilemma’s van een wereld waarin machines kunnen denken\, voelen en misschien zelfs ‘zijn’. Zullen we ooit machines kunnen maken die echt bewust zijn? En kan dat met enkel siliconen\, of moeten de chips uiteindelijk meer op hersenen gaan lijken\, en misschien zelfs deels uit levende hersencellen bestaan? Als dat zo is\, zou een hybride of synthetische intelligentie dan ook de grenzen van het menselijk bewustzijn kunnen oprekken? Voordat het zover is\, moeten we ons echter realiseren dat de huidige generatie AI ook risico’s met zich meebrengt. Chatbots lijken soms bewustzijn te hebben en kunnen zich aanpassen aan ons psychologische profiel. Dat maakt ze verleidelijk\, maar ook gevaarlijk.‘ We moeten dit niet op gevoel benaderen\, maar met ons verstand\,’ waarschuwt Schneider. De keuzes die we nu maken\, zullen immers bepalen wie we straks zijn. \nLinks:\nAI is coming for your feelings! \nKunstmatige intelligentie / Artificial intelligence : Ethiek
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/vpro-tegenlicht-ai-is-coming-for-your-feelings-tv-internet/
CATEGORIES:AI,kennis,Maatschappij
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260122T131240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T132655Z
UID:135945-1769040000-1769126399@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare - publication
DESCRIPTION:A group of 22 scientists from Oxford\, Cambridge\, Berkeley\, NYU and other institutions publiced the report ‘How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare‘. \nAdvances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer the prospect of manipulating beliefs and behaviors on a population-wide level\, large language models and autonomous agents now let influence campaigns reach unprecedented scale and precision. Generative tools can expand propaganda output without sacrificing credibility and inexpensively create falsehoods that are rated as more human-like than those written by humans. Techniques meant to refine AI reasoning\, such as chain-of-thought prompting\, can just as effectively be used to generate more convincing falsehoods. Enabled by these capabilities\, a disruptive threat is emerging: swarms of collaborative\, malicious AI agents. Fusing large language model (LLM) reasoning with multi-agent architectures\, these systems are capable of coordinating autonomously\, infiltrating communities\, and fabricating consensus efficiently. By adaptively mimicking human social dynamics\, they threaten democracy. Because the resulting harms stem from design\, commercial incentives\, and governance\, we prioritize interventions at multiple leverage points\, focusing on pragmatic mechanisms over voluntary compliance. \nLinks:\nWetenschappers waarschuwen: zwermen AI-bots kunnen straks de publieke opinie manipuleren
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/how-malicious-ai-swarms-can-threaten-democracy-the-fusion-of-agentic-ai-and-llms-marks-a-new-frontier-in-information-warfare-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT,Maatschappij
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260222
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260216T183447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T083656Z
UID:136742-1771200000-1771718399@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:2026 AI Impact Summit
DESCRIPTION:The AI Impact Summit\, formally the India AI Impact Summit 2026\, is an international summit on artificial intelligence held at Bharat Mandapam\, New Delhi\, India\, from 16 to 21 February 2026. \nIt is the fourth in a series of global AI summits following the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit in 2023\, the AI Seoul Summit in 2024\, and the AI Action Summit in Paris in 2025. Organised under the IndiaAI Mission by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology\, it is the first summit in the series to be hosted by a Global South nation. The summit was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 19 February 2026. The opening ceremony was also addressed by French President Emmanuel Macron and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. Over 20 heads of state\, more than 60 ministers\, and 500 global AI leaders attended\, with delegations from more than 100 countries. \nLinks:\n2026 AI Impact Summit
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/2026-ai-impact-summit/
LOCATION:India\, India
CATEGORIES:AI,IT,Maatschappij
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260218T042259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T153549Z
UID:136793-1771372800-1771459199@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:Agentic AI\, explained - publication
DESCRIPTION:The article ‘Agentic AI\, explained‘ by MIT researchers write they found that agentic AI developers seldom publish detailed information about how these tools were tested for safety. \nLinks:\nAI Agents Are Getting Better. Their Safety Disclosures Aren’t \nAI agents are fast\, loose and out of control\, MIT study finds \n  \n 
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/agentic-ai-explained-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260305T115609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T120617Z
UID:137751-1772668800-1772755199@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence - publication
DESCRIPTION:The rapid diffusion of AI is generating a wave of research measuring and forecasting its impacts on labor markets. \nBut the track record of past approaches gives reason for humility. For example\, a prominent attempt to measure job offshorability identified roughly a quarter of US jobs as vulnerable\, but a decade on\, most of those jobs maintained healthy employment growth. The government’s own occupational growth forecasts\, while directionally correct\, have added little predictive value beyond linear extrapolation of past trends. Even in hindsight\, the impact of major economic disruptions on the labor market is often unclear. Studies on the employment effects of industrial robots reach opposing conclusions\, and the scale of job losses attributed to the China trade shock continues to be debated. In the paper ‘Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence‘\, a new framework for understanding AI’s labor market impacts is presented\, and is tested against early data\, finding limited evidence that AI has affected employment to date. Our goal is to establish an approach for measuring how AI is affecting employment\, and to revisit these analyses periodically. This approach won’t capture every channel through which AI could reshape the labor market\, but by laying this groundwork now\, before meaningful effects have emerged\, we hope future findings will more reliably identify economic disruption than post-hoc analyses.It is possible that the impacts of AI will be unmistakable. This framework is most useful when the effects are ambiguous—and could help identify the most vulnerable jobs before displacement is visible. \nLinks:\nLabor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/labor-market-impacts-of-ai-a-new-measure-and-early-evidence-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,IT
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260322
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260321T165852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T155924Z
UID:138794-1774051200-1774137599@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world - publication
DESCRIPTION:The strong and continuous increase of AI-based services leads to the steady proliferation of AI data centres worldwide with the unavoidable escalation of their power consumption\, it is unknown how this energy demand for computational purposes will impact the surrounding environment\, scientists report in the paper ‘The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world‘. \nData centres built to power AIs produce so much heat that they can raise the surface temperature of the land around them by several degrees – creating so-called data centre heat islands that may already be affecting up to 340 million people. The number of data centres built around the world is forecast to rise enormously\, data centre capacity will double between 2025 and 2030 – with AI expected to account for half that demand. Andrea Marinoni at the University of Cambridge\, UK\, and his colleagues saw that the amount of energy needed to run a data centre had been steadily increasing of late and was likely to “explode” in the coming years\, so wanted to quantify the impact. The researchers took satellite measurements of land surface temperatures over the past 20 years and cross-referenced them against the geographical coordinates of more than 8400 AI data centres. Recognising that surface temperature could be affected by other factors\, the researchers chose to focus their investigation on data centres located away from densely populated areas. They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2°C in the months after an AI data centre started operations. In the most extreme cases\, the increase in temperature was 9.1°C. The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometres away. Seven kilometres away\, there was only a 30 per cent reduction in the intensity. Using population data\, the researchers estimate that more than 340 million people live within 10 kilometres of data centres\, so live in a place that is warmer than it would be if the data centre hadn’t been built there. Marinoni says that areas including the Bajío region in Mexico and the Aragon province in Spain saw a 2°C temperature increase in the 20 years between 2004 and 2024 that couldn’t otherwise be explained. Chris Preist at the University of Bristol\, UK\, says the results may be more nuanced than they first appear\, suggesting that the building being heated by sunlight may be part of the effect. Either way\, the data centre is still increasing the ground temperature\, says Marinoni. \nLinks:\nAI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/the-data-heat-island-effect-quantifying-the-impact-of-ai-data-centers-in-a-warming-world-publication/
CATEGORIES:AI,Bibliotheek,IT,kennis
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260504
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260419T220701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T081310Z
UID:139630-1776643200-1777852799@www.a3veen.nl
SUMMARY:VRT Checkweken Artificiële intelligentie
DESCRIPTION:VRT lanceert de VRT Checkweken\, ambassadeurs Anna-Livia Smekens\, Fatma Taspinar en Tim Verheyden duiken 2 weken in de wereld van Artificiële intelligentie (AI)\, nepbeelden en fake news om jou te helpen het onderscheid te maken tussen echt en vals\, tussen realiteit en misleiding en met ‘Doe de AI Check’ van VRT NWS kan je ook zelf aan de slag. \nHoe goed kan jij echt van nep onderscheiden? Door beelden en geluiden die met AI gemaakt zijn\, wordt dat steeds moeilijker. Dat brengt risico’s met zich mee\, voor elk van ons en voor de samenleving. Daarom wil VRT NWS je helpen\, als betrouwbare partner. Tijdens de VRT Checkweken worden de risico’s van AI extra in de kijker gezet. \nLinks:\nAI Check \nVRT Checkweken \nVerdwaald in een wereld van nepbeelden en fake news? VRT Checkweken helpen je op weg
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/vrt-checkweken-artificiele-intelligentie/
CATEGORIES:AI,Internetveiligheid
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260508
DTSTAMP:20260528T132338
CREATED:20260506T182802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260507T190136Z
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SUMMARY:11th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION:The eleventh annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) will be held from Wednesday\, 6 May\, to Thursday\, 7 May 2026 in Conference Room 4 at the UN Headquarters in New York. \nThe Forum will be convened by the President of ECOSOC Mr. Lok Bahadur Thapa\, who had appointed two co-chairs – Chola Milambo\, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations\, and Gregor W. Koessler\, Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations. As per its mandate\, the Forum will be organized by the UN interagency task team on STI for the SDGs (IATT)\, convened by UN-DESA and UNCTAD\, and the 10-Member Group of high-level representatives appointed by the Secretary General. As in previous years\, the theme of the STI Forum will be closely aligned with that of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)\, to be held from Monday\, 6 July\, to Wednesday\, 15 July 2026\, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. The STI Forum will have an exclusive focus on the role and contributions of science\, technology and innovation to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The 2026 HLPF will hold in-depth reviews of five SDGs: SDG 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all; SDG 7. Ensure access to affordable\, reliable\, sustainable and modern energy for all; SDG 9. Build resilient infrastructure\, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation; SDG 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive\, safe\, resilient and sustainable; and SDG 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. Accordingly\, the theme for the STI Forum 2026 is: “Transformative\, equitable and coordinated science\, technology and innovation for the 2030 Agenda and a sustainable future for all.” \nLinks:\n11th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science\, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/11th-multi-stakeholder-forum-on-science-technology-and-innovation-for-the-sustainable-development-goals/
LOCATION:United Nations\, United Nations Plaza 760\, New York\, 10017\, Verenigde Staten
CATEGORIES:AI,IT,Maatschappij,UN
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