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On Monday, June 30, 2025, the ComAI Lecture on “AI within Public Online Discourse” with Dr. Dennis Frieß from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf will take place at the Bremen Press Club. In his lecture, Frieß will focus on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in public online discourse and present three research projects. The first (…)

On May 7, 2025, Andreas Hepp will give a lecture at the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. The lecture will explore the concept of digital futures and the research perspectives required to investigate them. Hepp will discuss the meaning of the term “digital futures,” which is commonly used in (…)

On April 22nd, 2025, the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen hosted an inspiring panel discussion with the renowned tech philosopher Prof. Dr. David Gunkel. The challenges and opportunities of large language models (LLMs) and communicative artificial intelligence (AI) were discussed intensively for almost two hours, both on (…)

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, (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

On November 26, the ComAI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Claes de Vreese (Universiteit van Amsterdam) on the topic “The AI Effect: How (generative) AI is reshaping discussions about elections and democracy” will take place at Bremer Presse-Club. Abstract Democracies are based on exchange, debate and discussion about goals, approaches and solutions. What tasks need to (…)

On November 19, this semester’s first ComAI Lecture with Ralf Bendrath (Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament) on the topic “How the EU’s AI Act came about. Insights from a Negotiator” took place at Bremer Presse-Club. Ralf Bendrath was involved in the negotiations on the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, the first law world-wide to (…)

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 (…)