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Judith Faßbender | 17. February 2022

Why explainable AI needs such a thing as Society

Explainable AI (XAI) frameworks focus strongly on individual interests, while a societal perspective falls short. The solution? An incorporation of collective interests in target group specific communication.

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Dr. Thomas Bächle | 20. January 2022

Deep fakes: the uncanniest variation of manipulated media content so far

Deep fakes are certainly not the first occurrence of manipulated media content. So what fuels this extraordinary feeling of uncanniness we associate with them?

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Adriaan Odendaal, Karla Zavala Barreda | 14. December 2021

Towards the Technological Pluriverse

How does the design practice of digital technology need to be fundamentally changed to create a more inclusive digital future? Adriaan Odendaal & Karla Zavala Barreda on creating the idea of technological pluriverse through board games.

Freya Hewett & Sami Nenno | 29. November 2021

How to identify bias in Natural Language Processing

Why do translation programmes or chatbots often contain discriminatory tendencies towards gender or race? Here is an easy guide to understand how bias natural language processing works.

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Nicole Butters, Vincent Hofmann, Hanna-Sophie Bollmann, Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann | 27. October 2021

Ethics of digitalisation: dialogue, participation & visions

What visions do we need to implement so that an ethics-led digitalisation of our society works for everyone? We take stock.

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Sarah Ciston, Daniela Dicks | 26. October 2021

New toolkit collects easy tips for intersectional AI

Intersectional AI (IAI) is the key to greater inclusivity. It draws on practices of marginalised perspectives to fundamentally reshape the development, design and use of AI.

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GPT-2 | 9. September 2021

When will the first AI top the New York Times bestseller list?

Language generators based on artificial intelligence are producing increasingly convincing texts. This led us to wonder: Could an AI guest-author an article in Encore? This AI-written text is the result of our experiment.

Christoph Sorge | 30. August 2021

Myth: AI Models are abstract and do not need personal data

In supervised machine learning, models are based on abstractions from training data. The models themselves, while structurally influenced by the training data, do not contain the data themselves. It therefore…

Dr. Theresa Züger | 18. August 2021

With Open Mind and Open Source – the democratic potential of public good-oriented AI

Dr. Theresa Züger talks to Patricia Leu from Prototype Fund about the Public Interest AI project and the democratic potential of AI for the common good.

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Du siehst Eisenbahnschienen. Die vielen verschiedenen Abzweigungen symbolisieren die Entscheidungsmöglichkeiten von Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Gesellschaft. Manche gehen nach oben, unten, rechts. Manche enden auch in Sackgassen. Englisch: You see railway tracks. The many different branches symbolise the decision-making possibilities of artificial intelligence and society. Some go up, down, to the right. Some also end in dead ends.

Artificial intelligence and society

How can we better understand the complex and reciprocal relationship between AI systems and social processes?

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