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 (…)

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 (…)

Recently, a new working paper by ComAI-members Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp and Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen together with Prof. em. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink entitled “The Refiguration of Public Communication: A Relational and Process-oriented Perspective” was published. The publication addresses the concepts of “public sphere” and its “structural change” in communication and media research. It is (…)

How is social communication changing with the profound transformation of the digital media environment through communicative artificial intelligence? What consequences, risks, but also potentials are associated with the widespread use of this new technology in various social domains? The “Communicative AI” (ComAI) research group, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science (…)