Public presentation by Sille Obelitz Søe

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the final assessment presentation by tenure track assistant professor Sille Obelitz Søe - followed by a reception hosted by the department.

Sille has been tenure track assistent professor in the department since 2020 and she is currently going through the assessment for promotion to the rank of associate professor. The presentation is given as a part of the process and is the last presentation before the assessment committee will make their final evaluation.

The presentation and reception are public and will take place on Monday January. 8, 2024 at 15:00 in room 21.2.19.

We hope you will join us as we celebrate Sille and this important milestone in her career.

Kind regards
The Department Management Team

Abstract

What does it mean to be human? A story of information, technology, and the uniquely human

From deception to the techno-human. My endeavors within philosophy of information spans across different themes and disciplinary boundaries. Lying underneath it all is the entanglement of information, humans, and technology. How we understand the concept of information guides how we understand the world, how we address it, and how we act. Information also pertains to humans, it describes them, sticks to them, and define them and it happens within or aided by technological systems of different kinds. Further, technologies comes with implications for humans and the world – not least the digital and data hungry ones.

In this talk, I discuss the various strands of my research that collectively and in different ways try to answer the questions of what it means to be human in light of new technological developments. Through examples of some of the implications technological systems can have for humans I argue for the importance of the uniquely human in the midst of the renewed AI hype.