From exploring the history of the Web to unpacking a case study on emerging Agent Companion technology, participants engaged fearlessly with big questions around AI, ethics, autonomy, and rights.
Grateful for everyone who brought curiosity, depth, and energy to the conversation.
Brave Conversations is coming to WebSci’26 in Braunschweig. As part of the 18th ACM Web Science Conference (May 26–29), this session invites participants to engage with one of the defining questions of our time:
👉 What does it mean to be human in the age of smart machines?
websci26.org?page_id=821
Brave Conversations UCSC Colombo 2025: Helping to Create Smarter Humans
Facilitated by WST Trustee Anni Rowland-Campbell, WSTNet Deputy Chair Oshani Seneviratne, and RPI Web Science PhD student Fernando Spadea, they will discuss what it means to be smart in a digital world.
We would like to remind you that the 5th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School will take place from July 6th to 10th, at TU Wien, Austria!
Please find details about the program and the application process here: caiml.org/dighum//summ...
🗓️Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
📍Venue: W002 Hall, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), 35 Reid Avenue, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka
🔗Register here: braveconversations.org/event/ucscco...
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