There isn’t enough empirical data on the impact of AI
Many articles in peer-reviewed journals that investigate the application of artificial intelligence to knowledge work refer to data and insights from blogs, newspapers, or data collected by consulting firms. This…
The price of cheap labour
Digital global markets connect supply and demand in a historically unique way. At the same time, the distribution of customers and employees across nations and continents dramatically changed. The age…
Autonomous weapons – reality or imagination?
How autonomous are autonomous weapons? How real are they already? And to what extent do fictions like the Terminator contribute to how we think about this technology? These questions were…
Algorithmic decisions and human rights
Who is responsible if an autonomous vehicle is involved in an accident? What are the consequences of automated profiling of the unemployed? How intelligent is our use of artificial intelligence, and what visions and strategies do we need for the future? Innovations in the field of artificial intelligence are impacting nearly every area of our everyday life. However, algorithmic decision-making leads to complex human rights implications....
Digital innovation and entrepreneurship
Increasingly, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are investing in digital technologies to respond to the rapid changes that are now affecting almost all sectors of life and work. Many SMEs take this step either to realign their business model, to make their processes more efficient or simply because they are forced to do so by structural change and altering customer needs. But what concrete activities and strategies do SMEs pursue...
Governing AI: Political players between vision and regulation
Not only tech giants in Silicon Valley influence the development of artificial intelligence (AI): supranational political institutions, states and parties are also active leaders and regulators. They set legal standards, formulate strategies for the future, explore potentials and dangers, promote and sanction or even adopt controversial positions. How do political actors position themselves in the AI debate between economic interest,...
Exploring the digital society
To understand current social and technological change, we need explanations that help shape our future. Within the framework of the lecture series “Making Sense of the Digital Society“, visionary experts share their perspective on the digital society of our time. They address fundamental questions: What could a European perspective on the current transformation process look like? What is the meaning of power and how is it...
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Endangered privacy in the digital society
In his new book, Armin Nassehi makes the attempt to substatiate digital technology in the structure of modern society itself. He develops the thesis that certain social regularities, structures and…
Don’t let the numbers get to you
Her widely received essay “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy” at the turn of the millennium made Tiziana Terranova one of the most influential voices on the digital…
How an online order fights fragmentation
The internet will not break apart. While centrifugal forces contribute to the emergence of normative froth, frictions and fractures, technical invariants of the internet exercise defragmentation forces. But that’s not…
Quality control for predictive analytics
More and more decisions are reached with the help of algorithms. Some kind of regulation clearly is necessary. In this article, associated HIIG researcher Gert G. Wagner and Johannes Gerberding…
Robot judge: Verdict in the name of the algorithm?
Smaller legal disputes in Estonia are to be decided by Artificial Intelligence. In the USA, algorithms are already making decisions about penalties and bail amounts. In Germany, too, there is…
How do digital platforms make their money?
How do digital platforms capture value from the transactions they enable between different actors? An analysis of 51 platform startups and a derivation of recurring value capture patterns, resulted in…
The internet is already fragmented
The internet community is worried about the impending fragmentation of cyberspace. This discourse rests on very simplistic understandings of sovereignty and territory. By correcting these, argues Daniel Lambach (Normative Orders),…
The transfer of AI-expertise in to sustainable business models
The transfer of research results into functioning innovative business models is an important lever to make Germany a leading AI location. The EXIST funding programs support founders from the university…
Hong Kong protests: From Octopus to datenkraken?
The ideal vision of a Smart City is that services and objects are connected to the public infrastructure in order to optimise in energy use, traffic, safety, or quality of…
The relevance of culture in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence is the term on everyone’s lips – and it evokes both great hopes and dystopian horror scenarios. But how can you explain the enthusiasm for the technology? The…
How AI extends the doctors visit
Collecting and monitoring health data is a challenge for patients, physicians and insurance companies, especially in the follow-up care of complicated operations. Zana Technologies’ KI-based Health Assistant provides a novel…
AI in the hype cycle – A brief history of AI
In its eventful history, dating back to the 1950s, the research field of artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced several ups and downs. Sometimes the technology went through a phase of…
Run-DMC logo: When is a meme a meme?
For some years now, stickers have been appearing in Hamburg, Berlin and other German cities, which are all very similarly designed. At traffic lights and on building fences black squares…
The death of manual data entry
Data collection from standardized documents is still a manual process in many industries. AI-based solutions, such as those from Hypatos in Berlin, automate these manual processes, thereby reducing costs and…
How a medium-sized lamp manufacturer reacts to digital change
Small and medium-sized enterprises are increasingly investing in digital innovation to respond to the rapid changes that meanwhile affect all areas of life and business. But how they make concrete…
New EU Regulation: Upload filter against terrorist content?
A proposed EU Regulation aims to stop the spreading terrorist content on online platforms. Unfortunately, the misguided draft gravely threatens freedom of expression. HIIG researcher Alexander Pirang explains how the…
“I miss imaginaries that spell out ideas of AI as a public good”
Christian Katzenbach recently worked with his colleague Jascha Bareis on a project that compared the strategies of various countries such as France, the US and China to partake in a…
Killer cars? Autonomous vehicles and criminal liability
Who is criminally responsible when an autonomous car is involved in a car accident such as the accident in Arizona? The immediate suspects include: the user, the software company, the…
An autopilot for online marketing
Online marketing is an important sales channel for many companies. But to make campaigns efficient, you often need to analyse large amounts of data. AI-based solutions such as the Adspert…
Quo vadis – what types of AI are produced in Germany?
AI startups in Germany are an important driver to fully exploiting the economic potential of AI through innovative products, services and business models. In this blog post, Jessica Schmeiss and…
How (un-)intelligent is our collaboration with AI?
Discussing whether a machine is intelligent is relevant, but more urgent is the question whether our collaborations with machines are intelligent. An intelligent collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires complementary…
