The Democracy of Algorithms - Lecture by Daniel Innerarity
Philosopher and researcher Daniel Innerarity will discuss how the digital transformation is raising important questions from concerns of opposite sign.
2
Oct
2021
13:30 to
14:15
Some fear that algorithms will be the gravediggers of democracy. Others claim that "data democracy" will be more representative than any other model of democracy in human history and that the ballot box will soon be a relic of the past when our opinion may be automatically solicited thousands of times every day and experts will decide better than political parties. Pessimists will rightly ask why call this device democracy.
Daniel Innerarity will talk to us in his conference about the big questions of the coming years: how to ensure the validity of democratic values in new technological environments that could put them at risk but whose advantages it does not seem very intelligent to renounce.
Daniel Innerarity
He is professor of political philosophy, "Ikerbasque" researcher at the University of the Basque Country, director of the Institute of Democratic Governance and professor at the European Institute of Florence, where he holds the Artificial Intelligence & Democracy Chair. He has been visiting professor at several European and American universities, such as the Sorbonne University, the London School of Economics, Georgetown University and the Max Planck Institut in Heidelberg. His latest books are Politics in Times of Outrage (2015), Democracy in Europe (2017), Politics for the Perplexed (2018), Understanding Democracy (2018), A Theory of Complex Democracy (2020) and Pandemocracy. A philosophy of the coronavirus crisis (2020).
He is a regular contributor of opinion in El País, El Correo / Diario Vasco and La Vanguardia. He has won, among others, the Euskadi Essay Prize, the National Essay Prize, the Humanities, Arts, Culture and Social Sciences Prize of Eusko Ikaskuntza-Caja Laboral and the Prince of Viana Culture Prize. The French magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur" included him in a list of the 25 great thinkers of the world.
Free activity with previous registration. Daniel Innerarity will give the conference online.
Number of places: 30
Also broadcast in streaming (English: YouTube, Spanish: Facebook)
Project co-financed by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
Activity promoted and financed by the Regional Ministry of Culture, Language Policy and Tourism.
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