Ethics in IT : Department of Informatics : Universität Hamburg

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This is the homepage of the research group Ethics in Information Technology at Universität Hamburg. Our team researches the ethical, legal, social and political implications of contemporary information technologies and big data practices.

Here you can learn more about our research group and interdisciplinary team, the research, and teaching we do within and beyond the department of informatics and find latest news about activities from members of the research group.

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EIT Public Lecture Series: TAMING THE MACHINES

... takes a break and will be back in winter term 2023/24.
Now available on Lecture2Go, talks from this winter term: Jeanette Hofmann, Michael Nagenborg. Talks by Janina Loh, Lisa M. Herzog and Karine Gentelet are following soon. Please also browse our past programs and stream previous talks.

News

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31 January 2023|Publication

Newly published: Content Moderation and the Quest for Democratic Legitimacy

This paper by Laura Fichtner was published on December 31, 2022 in "Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society". For more information, read on ...

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24 January 2023|Event

Public Lecture: Human Rights: The Seam between Social Justice and AI

To truly seize AI’s discriminatory effects, we must prioritize a system of AI governance that goes beyond assessing the impacts of these technologies, instead positioning human rights as an overarching legitimizing framework. It’s precisely such a system that Prof. Dr. Karine Gentelet (Université du Québec en Outaouais...

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24 January 2023|Research

PhD Workshop: AI & Values

We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Dr. Karine Gentelet and Sara Blanco in Hamburg. Karine has kindly agreed to attend our PhD workshop on Tuesday morning, with three talks on "AI and Values".

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22 January 2023|Event

hr Podcast Studio Komplex: ChatGPT: Wir werden nutzlos

Prof. Dr. Judith Simon war zu Gast im hr Podcast STUDIO KOMPLEX vom 22.01.2023. In dieser "deutschlandweit ersten komplett durch ChatGPT generierten Podcastfolge" (sagt ChatGPT selbst), wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob Künstliche Intelligenz uns Menschen überflüssig macht.

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19 January 2023|Event

Talk at UTwente Philosophy: "Dis/Trusting AI?"

Prof. Dr. Judith Simon is guest speaker at University of Twente Philosophy colloquia series on January 19, 2023. In her talk, Judith Simon will first turn to the question whether we can sensibly talk about trust in AI systems. Proposing a socio-technical view on AI, she will argue that we can trust AI systems, if we...

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17 January 2023|Event

Public Lecture: Sympathy, Empathy, and Twitter. Reflections on the Architecture of Social Media Based on an 18th-Century Debate

Online communication, especially on social media, raises intricate challenges for regulators: how can the harm that hate waves or fake news create be minimized without limiting the freedom of expression of users in an inappropriate way? In her talk on Jan 17, 2023 Prof. Dr. Lisa M. Herzog draws on the 18th century debate...

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