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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 (…)

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, (…)

Ralf Bendrath (Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament) Datum: 19. November 2024 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract Ralf Bendrath was involved in the negotiations on the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, the first law world-wide to regulate AI specifically. He will give an insight into how the negotiations went, what the most interesting and salient (…)

Prof. Dr. Claes de Vreese (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Date: 26. November 2024 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract Democracies are based on exchange, debate and discussion about goals, approaches and solutions. What tasks need to be solved, what does the sovereign want? In parliamentary democracies, this decision-making takes place within the framework of elections. In mediatized (…)

Prof. Dr. Jeremy Knox (University of Oxford & University of Edinburgh) Date: 17. December 2024 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract In a similar way to previous education technologies, recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are typically discussed in terms of their ability to enhance learning or make the educational process more efficient. While this dominant (…)

Prof. Dr. Sonja Utz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien IWM & Eberhard Karls University Tübingen) Date: 14. January 2025 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract Language-based agents such as chatbots, voice assistants, and more recently, large language models, have become common tools for information retrieval. Assessing the quality of the information provided by these agents is crucial. This (…)

Prof. Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Date: 25. June 2024 Time: 18:30 Address: Schnoor 27 Building: Bremer Presse-Club Room: Club 27 Abstract This paper studies customers entering automated self-service hotels in China and using a facial recognition kiosk for registration. Based on video-recordings of 674 cases of customers checking in, we show that, as is common (…)

Prof. Dr. Benedetta Brevini (NYU, USA & University of Sydney, Australia) Date: 18. June 2024 Time: 18:30 Address: Schnoor 27, Bremen Building: Bremer Presse-Club Room: Club 27 Abstract Despite the growing concern over the environmental harms of ICT systems (Ferreboeuf, 2019) Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets principally heralded as the key technology to solve contemporary challenges, including the Climate crisis, which (…)

Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Date: 30. April 2024 Time: 18:30 Address: Schnoor 27, Bremen Building: Bremer Presse-Club Room: Club 27 Abstract Comprehensive analyses of diverging patterns in the journalistic coverage of major controversial topics are often limited by the volume of content that such analyses can realistically process. In-depth research typically relies on the manual coding (…)

Prof. Dr. Petter Bae Brandtzaeg (University of Oslo, Norway) Date: 30. January 2024 Time: 18:00 Address: Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 7, Bremen Building: SFG Room: SFG 1040 Abstract In this talk, I will explore the transformative potential of communicative artificial intelligence (AI) on the foundations of free speech. While optimistic perspectives propose that AI will catalyze and equalize political participation, others express concern (…)

Dr. Arne Hintz (Cardiff University, UK) Date: 16. January 2024 Time: 18:00 Address: Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, Bremen Building: Cartesium Room: Rotunde Abstract The roll-out of data analytics, algorithmic decision-making and AI has severe implications for democratic participation and state-citizen relations. While data systems deployed in public services and for state interventions can have severe implications for people’s lives, those who are (…)

Prof. Dr. David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA) Date: 5. December 2023 Time: 18:00 Address Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, Bremen Building: Cartesium Room: Rotunde Abstract The question concerning the moral status of others is typically decided on the basis of pre-existing psychological properties. I contest this standard operating procedure by identifying three seemingly intractable philosophical problems with the properties approach that become (…)