‘Ithra’ ends ‘synchronous’ digital balance summit…cyberbullying in school curriculum

King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture “Ithra” concluded tonight the second edition of the “Sync” Digital Balance Summit, the most prominent digital event in the region, held for two days at the headquarters of the center in Dhahran, with the participation of more than 70 speakers from the technology field and cultural influencers from more than 20 countries around the world, with the motto of the conference being “Facing the Digital Contradiction”. How much are their capabilities to make technology beneficial to human progress and what are the most prominent ways to achieve this goal.

The future of technology is shaped by optimists

The dialogue continued on the second day with the theme of “Digital Renaissance – Building a good relationship with the digital world for a better future”, experts in the field of technology discussed the positive uses of the technological era, and Kevin Kelly, editor-in-chief of Wired, spoke in the first session, he mentioned the issue of optimism in our relationship with the digital world and the relationship between humans and progress and modernity, and how humans can face these changes with a positive and optimistic attitude despite the huge problems. The world is full of, emphasizing that all inventions that have contributed to human development are born from optimism and a firm belief in the ability of humans to make changes, and that nothing is impossible in this life, they are the same people who make this life better and who shape the future, and about our relationship with artificial BroadCast Unitedligence, Kevin pointed out that the world will become better in the next 20 years, and many positive things will be achieved by following the optimistic methodology he proposed. Calling her.

Building trust between humans and AI

Dr. Muhammad Al-Haji, Director of the Behavior Change Department of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Dr. Roman Chowdhury, the US Science Envoy, and Sinan Aral, CEO of the MIT Digital Economy Technology Initiative, delivered speeches; On the most important and decisive transformation of the future of mankind, they pointed out that humans face many challenges every day in their relationship with artificial BroadCast Unitedligence, including false information and how to verify it, pointed out the importance of building trust between humans and artificial BroadCast Unitedligence and reliably processing the information and data provided by technology to a certain extent, while enhancing self-awareness in the effective use of technology and artificial BroadCast Unitedligence, and reviewed the most important initiatives taken by countries such as Saudi Arabia through “Sdaya”. And how its initiatives can help reduce the weaknesses of artificial BroadCast Unitedligence.

Raising awareness of the dangers of cyberbullying in schools

At the Digital Harmony session, Dr. Enrico Nano, Head of Research at Horizon Group, reviewed the most important results of the SYNC Global Digital Harmony Index, showing how to cope with the positives and negatives of digitalization and how technology can improve people’s lives. People can give up their friends in exchange for not giving up their devices, which has worrying consequences for the future of technology, stressed the importance of studying the issue of cyberbullying and its inclusion in school curricula, as well as reducing this phenomenon through awareness programs at school level and the role that teachers play in this regard, and on a global scale, stressed the need to teach younger children to be able to make clear decisions about coping with technology and to reduce the time spent using devices.