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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 (…)