Digital Vulnerabilities in the Age of AI Summit (DIVAS)

As AI innovation accelerates and magnifies both opportunities and risks, the Digital Ethics Center will be leading experts for a groundbreaking two-day Summit addressing the most pressing digital vulnerabilities of our time from an AI perspective. 


As AI systems are increasingly embedded in our physical and digital worlds, old vulnerabilities are exacerbated and new ones emerge. They are not evenly distributed: from AI-driven financial scams targeting the elderly to algorithmic manipulation of children’s virtual spaces; from mental health consequences of AI companions to the geopolitical risks of cyberconflict and infrastructure sabotage. The Summit will analyse these intersecting risks, uncover the systemic gaps—technical, regulatory, and ethical—that allow them to flourish, and above all, explore collaborative solutions to address them.

By invitation only
 

Dates: December 5-6, 2025

Location: Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect St., New Haven

Schedule of Events

11:15am: Registration opens 

12:00-1:30pm: Welcome Lunch 

1:30-320: Welcome Talks and Panels 

  • 1:30-1:50 - Welcome & Talk by Professor Luciano Floridi, DEC Director & Founder
  • 1:55-2:35 - Panel 1: Economic Harms
  • 2:40-3:20 - Panel 2: Child Safety

3:20-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-5:30: Panels

  • 16:00-16:40 - Panel 3: AI Companions 
  • 16:45-17:25 - Panel 4: Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

5:30-7:00: Cocktail Hour 

7:00-9:00: Dinner

8:45-9:30am: Breakfast 

9:30-10:55am - Panels

  • 9:30-10:10: Panel 5: Information Environment
  • 10:15-10:55: Panel 6: Environmental Impacts

10:55-11:25: Coffee break

11:25-1:00: Panels and closing

  • 11:25-12:05: Panel 7: Cyberconflict
  • 12:10-12:50: Panel 8: AI Vulnerabilities
  • 12:50-1:00: Closing Remarks by Professor Floridi

1:00pm: Farewell and Lunch