{"id":987502559,"date":"2025-10-15T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divancentre.org\/?p=987502559"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:23:00","slug":"first-day-of-the-cross-cultural-artificial-intelligence-symposium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divancentre.org\/en\/first-day-of-the-cross-cultural-artificial-intelligence-symposium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of the \u201cCross-Cultural Artificial Intelligence\u201d Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 9, 2025,\u00a0Der Divan \u2013 The Arab Cultural House<\/em>, in cooperation with the\u00a0Center for Humans & Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Doha, Qatar)<\/strong>, opened the two-day symposium\u00a0\u201cCross-Cultural Artificial Intelligence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The first day was dedicated to the academic community with a full-day\u00a0\u201cSchool on AI & Culture,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0bringing together MSc and PhD students from Germany and abroad. The program focused on how artificial intelligence can be designed to reflect and respect cultural diversity.<\/p>\n

The day began with\u00a0Dr. Mengchen Dong<\/strong>\u00a0(Max Planck Institute for Human Development), who introduced the theoretical and methodological foundations of culturally informed AI systems.\u00a0Prof. Mustafa Jarrar<\/strong>\u00a0(Hamad Bin Khalifa University & Birzeit University) followed with a lecture on the linguistic and semantic diversity essential to AI development.<\/p>\n

After lunch,\u00a0Prof. Ingmar Weber<\/strong>\u00a0(Saarland University) delivered an inspiring session titled\u00a0\u201cCan You See Culture from Space?\u201d<\/em>, exploring how satellite imagery and computer vision can reveal cultural and social patterns across the globe. The day concluded with\u00a0Dr. Rafiya Javed<\/strong>\u00a0(Google DeepMind), whose talk\u00a0\u201cExploring AI Reasoning on Human Rights Scenarios in Localized Cultural Contexts\u201d<\/em>\u00a0encouraged reflection on the ethical and human rights implications of AI in different cultural settings.<\/p>\n

The event offered young researchers valuable insights and a rich space for interdisciplinary dialogue \u2014 a promising start to a symposium that puts cultural diversity at the heart of AI research.<\/p>\n

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