ComAI-Lectures (2)

Abstract Language-based agents such as chatbots, voice assistants, and more recently, large language models, have become common tools for information retrieval. Assessing the quality of the information provided by these agents is crucial. This talk (…)

Abstract In a similar way to previous education technologies, recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are typically discussed in terms of their ability to enhance learning or make the educational process more efficient. While this (…)

Abstract Democracies are based on exchange, debate and discussion about goals, approaches and solutions. What tasks need to be solved, what does the sovereign want? In parliamentary democracies, this decision-making takes place within the framework (…)

Abstract Ralf Bendrath was involved in the negotiations on the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, the first law world-wide to regulate AI specifically. He will give an insight into how the negotiations went, what the (…)

Overview of the ComAI Lectures in Spring / Summer 2024 Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane): “AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News“ Prof. (…)

Abstract This paper studies customers entering automated self-service hotels in China and using a facial recognition kiosk for registration. Based on video-recordings of 674 cases of customers checking in, we show that, as is common (…)

Abstract Despite the growing concern over the environmental harms of ICT systems (Ferreboeuf, 2019) Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets principally heralded as the key technology to solve contemporary challenges, including the Climate crisis, which is one (…)

Abstract Comprehensive analyses of diverging patterns in the journalistic coverage of major controversial topics are often limited by the volume of content that such analyses can realistically process. In-depth research typically relies on the manual (…)

Overview of the ComAI Lectures in Fall / Winter 2023/24 Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden): „Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in friction“ Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK): “AI as knowledge (…)

Abstract In this talk, I will explore the transformative potential of communicative artificial intelligence (AI) on the foundations of free speech. While optimistic perspectives propose that AI will catalyze and equalize political participation, others express (…)

  also part of the FB9 lecture series on “The challenge of climate change” – cultural science perspectives on life in a threatened world Abstract The roll-out of data analytics, algorithmic decision-making and AI has (…)

Abstract The question concerning the moral status of others is typically decided on the basis of pre-existing psychological properties. I contest this standard operating procedure by identifying three seemingly intractable philosophical problems with the properties (…)