During our regular Digital Enlightenment Board meetings we discuss trends and topics that we notice swirling around our respective milieus. Last year, throughout 2025, there was an undeniable increase in anxiety about the workforce implications of Generative AI, especially the impacts likely to be felt, and in fact being felt, by graduating and...
Following the successful DIGHUM Summer School in Kigali last year, 2025, this year, the DIGHUM African Summer School will take place in Accra, Ghana. For comprehensive information and details on how to get involved, check out the EURIDICE dedicated page.
Two recent articles represent a growing and more documented realisation that, in particular, young people are finding usually normal interactions difficult and resorting to AI for assistance. Others, in a show of contrarian independence, are seeking friction-maxxing. That there are two competing methods of dealing with human situations suggests...
Even enthusiastically unabashed promoters of the use of AI in education admit that currently AI is used ( by both students and teachers ) in almost all schools with only one in four having any policy/ guidelines.
The EUDHIT publication page offers a just published research report by Steven Umbrello comparing frameworks focused on AI across many topics. There's also this wonderfully handy and clear comparison table. But the report is also very well worth a read as it introduces each framework succinctly.
As is typical with the OECD, this is a thorough and resource rich report. The introduction ponders "How can we prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, to tackle societal challenges that we can't yet imagine, and to use technologies that have not yet been invented? How can we equip them to thrive in an...
A few recent papers and articles caught our eye. Each consider bias, fairness and in the case of "Which humans?" paper, the WEIRD-ness of our interactions with AI. Here, WEIRD is Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich & Democratic, and found that as the distance from the US increases, the GPT's "alignment with local human values declines."
In a follow-on from Digital Humanism's Open Letter, Erich Prem, President of the Association of Digital Humanism and Co-ordinator of the European Digital Humanism Initiative EUDHIT presented the petition to the Petitions Committee (PETI) of the European Parliament on July 16. The video of that presentation is here and worth a look.
