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Gamifying Life & the Darker Sides of Technology

Date: Time: 20:15 Location: DZ-1, Tilburg University

Gamification of Life has its downsides. Bart van der Sloot will introduce these concerning Humanoid Robotics, Deepfake and Augmented & Virtual Reality.

Gamification of Life - Bart vd Sloot

Various digital techniques allow you to change reality according to your preferences. Use Deepfake Technology to let the King give your desired ‘alternative’ Christmas speech; assume the body of someone else in a Virtual Reality game; have a love robot fulfil your every desire; you name it. Life will be more fun and funnier, no doubt. But these technologies also have darker sides. Letting a Ukrainian general supposedly order his troops to surrender; hacking Virtual Reality to make it into a dystopia; letting your demented grandma believe she is communicating with her late husband, while in fact she is talking to a Humanoid Robot. What are technologies such as Humanoid Robotics, Deepfake and Augmented & Virtual Reality, what cool and scarry applications do they have and how will they affect social interaction and our shared perception of reality and should robots have rights? These are a small number of questions that this lecture will address.

Night Talk by Bart van der Sloot, associate professor at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University.

Night University 2023

This program is part of Night University, Tilburg University’s ultimate campus- and science festival. We open our doors to everyone, from young to old, free for everyone! Theme: Let's Play!

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