Conference
2025 AAAS Annual Meeting
Event location
Boston, USA
Target audience
researcher,
specialist audience,
journalists
What ethical principles should apply to brain-computer interfaces? How have AI-related regulations been put into practice so far? What is the relationship between urban nature and human health? And how can megacities take control of their own food supply?
These questions will be discussed by researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in four scientific sessions at the world's largest interdisciplinary scientific conference, the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Program
AI Governance: From Principle to Practice
February 14, 2:30 pm
TUM expert: Urs Gasser, Professor of Public Policy, Governance and Innovative Technology
Further panelists:
Sandra Cortesi, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
Armando Guio, Network of Centers for Internet and Society, Cambridge
Food Security in Megacities of the Future
February 14, 2:30 pm
TUM expert: Thomas Becker, Professor of Brewing and Beverage Technology
Further panelists:
Kee Woei Ng, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nicole Blackstone, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston
Nature’s Prescription: How Urban Nature, Biodiversity and Health Are Linked
February 15, 10 am
TUM expert: Monika Egerer, Professor of Urban Productive Ecosystems
Further panelists:
Alessandro Ossola, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California
Xiaoqing Xu, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Construction Technology Center, Shanghai
The Ethics and Policy of Neural Interfaces: Maximizing Benefit, Minimizing Risk
February 15, 4 pm
TUM expert: Marcello Ienca, Professor of Ethics of AI and Neuroscience
Further panelists:
Nita Farahany, Duke Law School, Duke University, Durham
Nataliya Kos'myna, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge