Ethics, Data Science and Networked AI: Guest Lectures

The increasing impact of computer science in everyday life is irrefutable. That being said, present and future technologies need to be scrutinized from an ethical standpoint. Prof. Dr. Bettina Berendt and her students tackle this task in the lecture „Ethics, Data Science and Networked AI“. On January 11th and 12th, Hans-Christian Gräfe and Dr. Stefan Ullrich contributed with […]

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Book published “AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives”

The global debate on the nature, use and consequences regarding a set of technologies around Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), often dubbed Artificial Intelligence (AI), is still ongoing and highly relevant. University of Westmister Press Editor Pieter Verdegem therefore started the book project AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives as part of the Critical, Digital and Social […]

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New Publication: From Data to Discourse: How Communicating Civic Data Can Provide a Participatory Structure for Sustainable Cities and Communities

Our research fellows Yuya Shibuya (University of Tokyo), Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University), and Andrea Hamm (RIoT, Weizenbaum Institute) have published a multi-method study on bicycle counters and civic urban data taking into account SDG 11 “sustainable cities and communities.” Abstract: This study explores how Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have leveraged civic data to facilitate democratic […]

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