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AI Humanities: Reclaiming Artificial Intelligence

Logo of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH)

As Director of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH), I curate a programme to look at artificial intelligence from the perspective of the humanities. I want to revisit and reclaim AI as an endeavour of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.

  • How can we understand artificial intelligence as part of the liberal arts, and of the humanities in particular, and not just as another piece of technology?
  • How does AI affect the humanities and how should AI be shaped by the humanities?
  • What philosophy comes implicit or even explicit in AI? What philosophy can potentially be modelled with AI?
  • How can higher education, liberal arts education in particular, make use of AI? What are risks?
  • How does AI touch the life and experience of the students already now, and in the foreseeable future?

Reach out to me if you have suggestions or comments or ideas to participate:

blumtritt_joerg@wheatoncollege.edu

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United Nations: “We could replace the services offered by banks with blockchain.”

The most exciting work we have done so far at Datarella was to build and set up a blockchain-based payment system for the United Nations’ World Food Programme (as described earlier here: Blockchain-based accounting and payment system ).

Now the UN is upping the stakes: “We felt we could replace the services offered by banks with blockchain.” so WFP director Robert Opp. This quote is directly connected with the Buildingblocks system that we developed for the world’s largest help organization.

The numbers are far exceeding what even we blockchain enthusiasts would have thought to be possible: 98% reduction in transaction costs and big increase in transparency by facilitating easy auditing.

The huge success of the Buildingblocks project motivates us to go one step further – this is why we build RAAY, a full scale blockchain platform to bring financial services to the billions of unbanked people of the world: https://raay.money/

Read more about our work in this nice article on Bloomberg.