Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI) – The Automation of Societal Communication
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.
Research in nine projects plus coordination project
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.
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 (…)
Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK) Date: 28. November 2023 Time: 18:00 Address: Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, Bremen Building: Cartesium Room: Rotunde Abstract This talk will reflect on AI from the perspective of the framework of data colonialism (Couldry and Mejias, 2019). AI, in practical terms, represents the application of a hugely increase in computing capacity, but from the perspective of data (…)
Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden) Date: 21. November 2023 Time: 18:00 Address: Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, Bremen Building: Cartesium Room: Rotunde Abstract Amidst intensifying debates about the possibilities and harms with AI and automated-decision making, their energetic needs and scale of operations are also soaring. How much is the carbon footprint of an AI? How many watts of energy does (…)
21. November 2023
Contact:
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
