The prevalence of speech assistants taking orders, social bots influencing debates, and machines generating texts underscores the increasing sophistication of automated communication. Simultaneously, public discourse on these phenomena reflects the ongoing challenges associated with the automation of communication. It seems that the intricacies of today’s complex societies compel a reliance on automation to meet communication needs, while also generating additional issues for which automated communication appears to be the most plausible solution.
The “Communicative AI“ Research Unit, funded by the DFG and the FWF, is investigating in nine projects and one coordination project how societal communication changes when communicative AI becomes part of it. Top researchers from the fields of media and communication studies, informatics, sociology and law are involved. The research focuses on pioneer communities, the development of interfaces, the legal handling and governance of communicative AI, its role in journalism, in public (online) discourse, in everyday personal life through technological companions, in the health sector and in learning and teaching.
An open discussion with David Gunkel Date: 22. April 2025 Time 10:00 Street: Linzer Str. 4, 28359 Bremen Location: ZeMKI Abstract In response to any written text—like the sentences you are reading right now—it is reasonable to ask who wrote it and can therefore explain and authorize what it says. This seemingly sensible inquiry is typically resolved by pointing (…)
14. April 2025
PROF. DR. MIKE S. SCHÄFER (UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH) Date: 15. April 2025 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27, 28359 Bremen Location: Bremen Press-Club Abstract Generative AI – which generates new results based on extensive digital data and human training – is fundamentally changing public communication. Citizens and communications professionals are using it to communicate about political and economic issues, healthcare, (…)
14. April 2025
The research group “Communicative AI” (ComAI) has been featured in a recent article by taz – die tageszeitung. The piece explores the central question of our project: How does societal communication change when Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a part of it? The article highlights the interdisciplinary research conducted by ComAI, funded by the German Research (…)
10. March 2025
In January, the DFG/FWF research group “ComAI” on the automation of societal communication, jointly initiated by the ZeMKI at the University of Bremen, the Hamburg Leibniz Institute for Media Research, the University of Graz, and the University of Vienna, will commence. Nine research projects, along with a coordination project, will investigate how societal communication changes (…)
13. January 2025
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen
Universität Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-67620
Sekretariat (Ms. Schmidt): +49 421 218-67606
E-mail: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
