IEEE TEMS/LMAG: "AI and the Global Call for Red Lines – Will It Help?” (DigHum-Series)

Dear colleague,
We are pleased to invite you to this talk in our Lecture Series:
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1)
Topic: “AI and the Global Call for Red Lines – Will It Help?”
(scroll down for abstract and CV)
Speaker: Marc Rotenberg (Center for AI and Digital Policy, USA)
Moderator: Anna Bon (UV Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Here is recording of the last lecture by Jaron Lanier (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxuxss.mjt.lu%2Flnk%2FAUcAAIMkIgMAAc5NH-YAAFNIx9MAAAAARcEAn-g8ABG7CQBpFk2VaVODxfHnQVGzbJJj1lV3_QARx9M%2F4%2Fzi8tqTAIO5RotdMuv71x7w%2FaHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9nNzhTT3RxczRQOA&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.heiss%40siemens.com%7C34be551e71394fd3428708de22fba56c%7C38ae3bcd95794fd4addab42e1495d55a%7C1%7C0%7C638986661388968928%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cEoOYhjEt4v0hnRBeRxiDEoWv9nd23xXiWrcXpgOgWA%3D&reserved=0). We apologize for the technical troubles for the remote audience, a regular DigHum Lecture with Jaron Lanier should be forthcoming early 2026.
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We are looking forward to seeing you!
Co-sponsored by: DIGHUM
Agenda:
ABSTRACT “AI and the Global Call for Red Lines – Will It Help?”:
Around the world, policymakers and researchers are converging on a simple conclusion: the future of trustworthy AI depends on establishing clear red lines for systems that undermine human rights, safety, or democratic institutions. Leading AI scientists—including Russell, Hinton, and Bengio—have warned that some advanced systems exhibit behaviors developers cannot fully predict or control, underscoring the need for enforceable limits. Human-rights bodies have reached similar judgments: the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO have called for bans on AI uses such as mass surveillance and social scoring. Recent frameworks—from the EU AI Act to the Council of Europe AI Convention—translate these concerns into concrete prohibitions. Building on earlier principles such as the Termination Obligation in the Universal Guidelines for AI, the new AI Red Line Initiative seeks to amplify these emerging prohibitions. The evidence is now clear: well-defined red lines do help. They protect fundamental rights, provide operational clarity for developers, and create space for beneficial innovation within boundaries that preserve human control.
Short Bio of Marc Rotenberg:
Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director and Founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, a global network of AI experts and human rights advocates. He has served on many expert panels, including the OECD AI Group of Experts and the Council of Europe Committee on AI. Marc helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI, a widely endorsed human rights framework for AI governance. Marc is the co-editor of “The AI Policy Sourcebook” (CAIDP 2025) and the “AI and Democratic Values report” (CAIDP 2025). He teaches privacy law at Georgetown Law and AI Systems Applications at Georgetown University. He was a founding board member and former chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. Marc has published widely in academic and popular journals, and is a founding editor of the Journal of AI Law and Regulation. He is a member of the American Bar Foundation, the American Law Institute, and the European Law Institute. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Stanford Law School, and Georgetown Law.
Short Bio of Anna Bon :
Anna Bon is researcher and lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Maastricht University, and senior project manager at VU Amsterdam’s International Office (CIS Centre for International Cooperation). She directs the interdisciplinary research, education and community service program W4RA (Web alliance for Regreening in Africa). Her interdisciplinary research centers around how innovative context-aware technologies can be developed in a co-creative way to support local value chains and improve food security, serving especially smallholder farmers and communities in Africa’s drylands. Her international projects include digital voice-service support for local cereal seeds value networks in West Africa (Mali); ICT4D Community Service Learning in rural Sarawak, Malaysia; Sustainability and Ethics in Digital Development; AI for Sustainable Development, and the Amsterdam Digital Divide. Anna Bon is the coordinator of EURIDICE, an EU-funded project covering 15 countries, that aims to establish interdisciplinary, master-level education for Digital Society, Social Innovation and Global Citizenship, to build a new generation of professionals with skills and thought-leadership to navigate the rapidly changing Digital Society.
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/516495