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Open for PhD candidates from all universities and universities of applied science in the Netherlands. Organized by TU Delft Safety and Security Institute, together with RIVM and VU. Safety is becoming increasingly relevant in various fields, particularly in designing products and processes. The renewed focus on Safe by Design tries to identify and include safety (along with other important values such as sustainability, security and circularity) at an early stage of design. This course offers an excellent overview of the extensiveness and importance of the integral approach of Safe by Design. The team of lecturers together represent both the broad academic as the more practice-oriented approach and represent TU Delft and VU, and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Safe by Design.

In this talk, Lavinia Marin will flesh out a new direction of research in Social Media and Internet ethics which she has termed "interface ethics/ epistemology".

The fPET2023 conference at Delft University of Technology will bring together engineers and philosophers to address the challenges of engineering in a changing world. fPET 2023 will provide the opportunity to meet like-minded researchers and present and discuss research on the intersection of engineering and philosophy, addressing the broad theme of technology and engineering in a changing world.

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT or LaMDA are often presented as a breakthrough in AI because of their ability to write convincing texts in a matter of seconds and when presented only with a short opening sentence. In philosophy specifically, there are concerns about LLMs displacing the opportunities for critical reasoning through the act of writing and the consequent educational challenges in this regard.

AI, design, and democracy are terms whose definitions seem ever-expanding. They refer to a wide variety of technical systems, methods, infrastructures, and social practices that are not always in dialogue with each other.

ValueMonitor is an easy-to-use tool for empirical investigations of values and value change in text corpora (e.g., scientific articles, newspaper articles). Investigations performed with ValueMonitor can be used to discover neglected moral issues voiced by societal actors or to map the current state of scientific research on specific values and technologies. The workshop is part of the ERC project ‘Design for Changing Values’ funded by the EU. It will take place on March 10th, 2023, from 9.30 to 16.30, in Delft.

We invite you all to connect with us and we are looking forward to meeting you in 2023. As of January 2023, we will be hosting monthly playground meetings during lunchtime (free lunch provided); these will rotate between faculties. You are cordially invited to the first meeting on Wednesday 25th January: 12.30 – 13.30 at TPM.