Ethics in IT : Department of Informatics : University of Hamburg

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Welcome!

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

Please note: The lecture by Dr. Daragh Murray on June 10, 2025 had to be cancelled at short notice. Please join us for the next lecture at Taming the Machines on June 24, 2025. We are welcoming Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe who will talk about AI and environmental justice. Find more talks in our current program.

Please also browse our past programs and stream previous talks.

News

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30 June 2025|Publication

Newly published: Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust

Generative AI has taken the world by storm. With millions of regular users, billions of requests and corresponding results, tools employing Generative AI are ceaselessly used and abused for a wide variety of purposes. This newly published article by Prof. Dr. Judith Simon focuses on the problem of deception resulting from...

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10 June 2025|Event

Cancelled: Public Lecture: Human Rights and the Surveillance State

Please note: the lecture had to be cancelled at short notice. Facial recognition technology has rapidly transitioned from the realm of science fiction to everyday life, monitoring our activities in public spaces, securing our devices, and being heralded by law enforcement as a crucial tool against crime. In his lecture on...

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3 June 2025|Event

Public Lecture: Misinformation

"Taming the Machines" public lecture series will kick off this summer semester on June 3, 2025 with a lecture on the paradox of misinformation and disinformation in our information-rich society. Prof. Dr. Gloria Origgi (CNRS, Paris) will define misinformation and disinformation, and explore how they relate to knowledge...

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29 May 2025|Event

Kammertheater Stuttgart: Innovationslabor Zukunft

Vom 28. Mai bis zum 1. Juni verwandelt sich das Kammertheater Stuttgart in eine theatrale Forschungsstätte: das erste Innovationslabor Zukunft. Prof. Dr. Judith Simon ist am 29. Mai als Keynote-Speakerin eingeladen. Sie spricht über "Künstliche Intelligenz: Vertrauen und Täuschung."

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28 May 2025|Event

Veranstaltungsreihe "Die Zukunft der KI": Wie vertrauenswürdig und ethisch ist Künstliche Intelligenz?

Am 28.05.2025 wird Prof. Dr. Judith Simon mit ihrem Vortrag "Wie vertrauenswürdig und ethisch ist Künstliche Intelligenz?" zu Gast in der Vortragsreihe "Die Zukunft der KI" sein. Das Collegium Gissenum und die Gießener Abendgespräche Kognition und Gehirn laden zur gemeinsamen Veranstaltung des Instituts für Philosophie und...

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14 May 2025|Event

KI und Ethik - Über die verantwortungsvolle Entwicklung und Nutzung generativer KI

Mit einem Impuls zu Künstlicher Intelligenz und Ethik ist Prof. Dr. Judith Simon am 14.05.2025 zu Gast bei "KI am Mittag". Die digitale Lunch-& Learn-Reihe zu Chancen und Herausforderungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz wird von der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank in Kooperation mit der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung...

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14 May 2025|Event

Trustworthy AI? On the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

The research group: „Diginomics – Digitalization, Business & Society" at University Bremen invited Prof. Dr. Judith Simon to talk about trusworthy AI in their Diginomics brownbag seminar series. The event is online.

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13 May 2025|Event

Hamburg Research Academy: Postdoc Talks "Ethics in AI"

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...

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12 May 2025|Event

D64 Frühjahrsempfang 2025

Beim jährlichen D64-Frühjahrsempfang wird in diesem Jahr über die Frage diskutiert, wie mehr Gerechtigkeit zu einer Digitalpolitik beitragen kann, die unsere Demokratie vor Bedrohungen schützt. Prof. Dr. Judith Simon ist zusammen mit Yasmin Fahimi, der Vorsitzenden des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes, eine der Panelistinnen...

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