ComAI Lectures

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 (…)