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Zine: What does the DSA do?
Our zine explains how the EU's Digital Services Act works, why it matters, and what actions you can take against hate speech or disinformation.
Big tech in global security governance
The Internet Policy Review is inviting papers for a special issue on Big Tech's growing role in international security. Abstracts due by 21 September.
AI voices: Deceptively real?
On Bayerischer Rundfunk, media economist Philip Meier talks to other experts about the cloning of human voices.
Voluntary Year in Research (FJN)
Experience research after your A-levels? Apply now and experience science communication, digitalisation and exciting projects from September 2025.
Science under pressure
Funding cuts, political interference, shrinking trust: This call invites reflections on visible symptoms and underlying dynamics of the forces that alter academia.
When scientists are targeted, what helps?
At our KAPAZ workshop, researchers explored how to move from awareness to action. Read the summary on wissenschaftskommunikation.de.
Public Interest AI
On reset.org, researcher Theresa Züger explains why artificial intelligence requires a new approach to technology for the benefit of society as a whole.
Legal advice from AI: opportunity or risk?
Researcher Matthias C. Kettemann talks to ZDF about the question of whether AI language models are also suitable for answering legal questions. (In German)
It’s just maths!
For the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), HIIG researcher Theresa Züger categorises the current social debate on AI.
Resisting digital change at universities
A new open access paper by HIIG and CATALPA explores why digital transformation in universities meets resistance and calls for organisational strategies.
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