ComAI member (P8) Juliane Jarke took part in a summer school “AI and the future of healthcare” from 7th to 10th July 2026 in Trieste. The summer school was organised jointly by the national Science and Technology Associations: STS Italia and STS Austria. It included participants (PhD and PostDoc-level) from across Europe, Brazil, US and Japan. Juliane (…)

On Thursday, September 3, at 4:00 p.m., the Diversity & Gender Equality Working Group of the ComAI Research Group invites you to a book presentation of “Data Feminism” as part of its internal lecture series. Together with Prof. Lauren F. Klein (Emory University, USA), the book’s co-author, we would like to discuss the role of data (…)

What does “healthy” aging mean as conversational AI becomes an increasingly common part of everyday life? And how are older adults currently engaging with health technologies and envisioning their futures as they age? To address these and other topics, Leonie Winterpacht from P8 “Health” presented at two consecutive international conferences: the 55th Annual Conference of (…)

What should our digital future look like? Juliane Jarke explores this question in an article published on May 30, 2026, in Die Presse. As part of the Graz Sociodigital and Participatory Futures Studio, young people and older adults are developing their own visions of the future in workshops. The results show that many people want (…)

Is it surprising to someone who researches AI in journalism that readers can’t say for sure whether a text was written by a human or an AI? No, not really. Antonia Eichenauer from the P5 project “Journalism: Automating the News and Journalistic Autonomy” answered these and other questions on July 13, 2026, on the morning (…)

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen at the Free Press Media Forum in Berlin On June 30, 2026, the MVFP’s Free Press Media Forum (Medienforum der freien Presse MVFP26) will take place in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, project lead for P5: “Journalism: The Automation of News and Journalistic Autonomy” and senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute (…)

As part of the event “Who Is Making Generative AI the ‘Inevitable’ Technology of the Future?”, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach will give a presentation in English on the social and political shaping of generative AI. This lecture examines the development of generative AI as a sociotechnical phenomenon. Using the AI strategies of the (…)

On 23 June 2026, Felicia Loecherbach (University of Amsterdam / NYU Center for Social Media and Politics) was a guest at the ComAI Lecture at the Bremer Presse-Club. Under the title “Inside the Feed. Data donation and political behaviour on social media,” she offered insights into a methodological field of growing importance: data donation as (…)

On Thursday, 25 June 2026, voices from research, media law and practice gather at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce for the 16th Hamburg Media Symposium. Under the heading “The Information Crescendo: Where Search and AI Meet – and Media Could Fall Silent,” the event addresses a development that is fundamentally reshaping the information ecosystem: traditional (…)

On 16 June 2026, Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto) joined the ComAI Lecture series at the Bremer Presse-Club. Grohmann is Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies), co-lead of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster, and leader of the DigiLabour initiative. His talk, “Worker-led AI Governance in Cultural Industries,” asked how cultural (…)

Date: Friday, July 24, 26Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM (CEST)Format: Online via Zoom – https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/69013752224?pwd=gPpl3YaHMtn7TQu8J2z39e5wtTT0Sa.1 (Meeting-ID: 690 1375 2224 | Kenncode: 680823)Language: German On Friday, July 24, 2026, the ComAI and DISELMA research units will host a joint research colloquium. The colloquium will take place online via Zoom. External guests are very welcome to (…)

A blog post by Andreas Hepp Anyone who, as a non-American, currently wants to work with Anthropic’s latest language model, Claude Fable 5, has, since Saturday German time, been receiving the message that the model is “currently unavailable.” Behind this lies an export control imposed by the US government, under which all foreign nationals are (…)