Universität HamburgEthics in IT

Ever since the release of ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence has become a prominent topic in public discourse. However, AI had been pervasive in many areas of life before, ranging from search engines and recommender systems over weather forecasting and pattern recognition in cancer diagnostics to the use of software to...

This workshop at University of Pavia, Italy will explore the complex connections between trust and artificial intelligence from a broadly epistemological perspective. It will examine how AI affects the network of trust in society, our understanding of risk, and how it leads us to rethink our relationship with technology...

KI-Bilder von Karl Lauterbach oder Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Auf Social Media machen solche Fakes im Wahlkampf Stimmung. Die Grenze zwischen Satire und Falschinformation ist nicht einfach zu ziehen. Doch es gibt Hinweise. In diesem #Faktenfuchs Faktencheck von BR24 Medien wird u.a. Prof. Dr. Judith Simon interviewt.

Zum Nachhören: MDR Aktuell interviewt Prof. Dr. Judith Simon zum AI Action Summit, der vom 10.-11.02.2025 in Paris stattgefunden hat, und dem Impuls, den er gegeben hat.

The Interpreting Europe Conference is the flagship event of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Interpretation. Prof. Dr. Judith Simon is panelist of the debate: AI-powered interpretation: Is the sky really the limit? on February 7, 2025.

From February 6 to 11, 2025, Paris hosted numerous events aimed at strengthening international action towards artificial intelligence serving the general interest. The week featured scientific days, a cultural weekend, an international summit held at the Grand Palais, numerous parallel events, and a dedicated day for...

Taming the Machines public lecture series will conclude this winter term with a lecture on the challenges of value alignment in AI systems. Prof. Dr. Ibo van de Poel (TU Delft) will argue against the idea of real-time value alignment, highlighting its risks and proposing an alternative fallibilist approach.

The status of prediction in research and social practices seems to be changing with the advent of big data and the rapid proliferation of advanced machine learning algorithms. In her lecture on January 20, 2025, Prof. Dr. Elena Esposito (University Bielefeld & University of Bologna) will explore the distinction between...

The Ethics in IT team at Universität Hamburg (EIT) and the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) will be holding a joint research conference on the ethical and social aspects of AI on the 13th and 14th January 2025 with a view to explore future research collaborations at Tilburg University.