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Britta Bomhauer

Britta Bomhauer works as a student research assistant in the AI and Gender Equality as well as the Impact AI research project within the Societal Values, Transformation and AI research focus. The former project focuses on conducting a meta-analysis of gender-based inequalities in the context of AI. Impact AI aims to develop an auditing method to assess the impact of public good-oriented AI projects on social transformation and sustainability.

Britta Bomhauer is currently pursuing a master’s degree in European Literatures at Humboldt University in Berlin. Prior to that, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences at Humboldt University, and subsequently studied for a master’s degree in Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Her areas of interest include feminist, postcolonial, and posthumanist theories.

Current projects

  • The picture depicts a concrete bench-like structure. Its visible gap serves as a metaphor for structural inequality in AI and gender equality.
    AI · Society & culture

    AI and Gender Equality

    The project reviews research on AI and structural gender inequality, identifying problem areas, research gaps and fields of action for policy and practice.
  • Close-up image of a fluorescent brain coral with intricate, glowing green and brown ridges. The image is used as a visual representation for the topic ‘Impact AI: Evaluating the impact of AI for sustainability and public interest,’ symbolizing complex structures and interconnected ecosystems
    AI

    Impact AI

    This research project is developing an Impact Assessment to evaluate the impact of AI systems in the areas of sustainability and public interest.

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Position

Student assistant: Societal Values, Transformation and AI

Contact

britta.bomhauer@hiig.de

Research focus

Societal Values, Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

Our research critically analyses socio-technical transformation processes. It centres on the question of how digital technologies can be more closely aligned with societal goals – particularly with regard to sustainability, the public interest and democratic values.