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artificial&intelligent?Alexa, Please Show Some Emotion: When Machines Fake Empathy Better Than Humans
Are we heading toward a future where chatbots become the better humans? Weizenbaum Fellow Martin Wählisch imagines AI agents that force us to ask whether we were ever that great at human connection to begin with.
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artificial&intelligent?Interview„KI-Innovation beruht auf Commons, nicht Big Tech“
Weizenbaum-Forscher Sebastian Koth erklärt im Interview, dass in Zeiten von KI-Nationalismus, Tech-Oligarchien und geopolitischem Wettrennen wahre Innovation in dezentralen gemeinwohlorientierten KI-Infrastrukturen liegt. Die Wissenschaft macht es bereits vor.
03/26/2025 -
NewsReportKI und die Arbeitswelt: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Weichenstellungen
Weizenbaum-Forscherin Esther Görnemann war als Expertin zu einer Paneldiskussion beim Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat (BMI) eingeladen. Thema der Veranstaltung: „KI und die Arbeitswelt: Be- oder Entlastung? Chance oder Risiko?“
03/26/2025
Research Foci
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Digital Technologies in Society
In this research focus, the connection between digitalization, participation and inequality is to be researched, the use of digital technologies for participation opportunities is to be tested and interventions against new inequalities are to be made. To this end, perspectives from business informatics, design research and computer science will be brought together.
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Digital Markets and Public Spheres on Platforms
In recent years, markets and publics have emerged on digital platforms, which are investigated in the four research groups of the focus area. Normatively, these platforms are in tension between public good orientation and economic imperatives. For their investigation, the perspectives of communication science, political science, economics, and computer science are brought together.
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Organizing Knowledge
Within this research focus we deal with questions about the workplace, the education system, and science. Above all we examine questions of openness and exclusion in the processing and organization of data and knowledge. In doing so, we draw on perspectives from computer science, business informatics, sociology, and innovation research.
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Digital Infrastructures in Democracy
This research focus examines the development of digital infrastructures and the resulting structural change in society. Special attention is given to tensions between security and freedom from the perspectives of law, sociology, computer science, and political science.
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Weizenbaum Digital Science Center
With the new Weizenbaum Digital Science Center, the Weizenbaum Institute establishes scientific offerings that create research, networking, orientation, and infrastructure services for interdisciplinary digitalization research and strengthen the coherence of research at the Weizenbaum Institute.
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Events
04/07/2025
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Book Presentation
Sisyphos im Maschinenraum - Eine Geschichte der Fehlbarkeit von Mensch und Technologie
Buchpräsentation und Gespräch mit Martina Heßler.
04/08/2025
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Online
Weizenbaum Forum
Digitale Souveränität in der Krise? Wie geopolitische Machtverhältnisse globale Plattformen beeinflussen
Aktuelle Ereignisse, wie die erneute Amtseinführung von Donald Trump, verdeutlichen, wie schnell digitale Plattformen auf politischen Druck reagieren. So stellte Meta die Zusammenarbeit mit Faktenprüfer:innen ein, lockerte seine Hassrede-Richtlinien und verlegte sein Moderationsteam nach Texas – ein…
04/10/2025
09:30 AM - 06:00 PM | Weizenbaum Institute
Conference
Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons.
This conference hosted by the Weizenbaum Institute and Wikimedia Deutschland brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss the power structures shaping free knowledge today and to explore pathways toward more equitable and inclusive knowledge ecosystems.
04/11/2025
02:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Wie GenAI und Process Intelligence das Prozessmanagement revolutionieren
Wie können Generative Künstliche Intelligenz (GenAI) und moderne Process-Intelligence-Ansätze das Prozessmanagement revolutionieren? Das diskutieren wir in diesem Expertenforum im April.
04/15/2025
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Panel Discussion
Weizenbaum Report 2025: Politische Partizipation in Deutschland
Seit 2019 wird am Weizenbaum-Institut in Kooperation mit der Freien Universität Berlin jährlich eine repräsentative Bevölkerungsbefragung zur politischen Partizipation in Deutschland unter den Bedingungen der Digitalisierung durchgeführt. Im Rahmen eines Vortrags mit Podiumsdiskussion werden nun…
04/16/2025
05:00 PM - 09:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Book Presentation
Seeing Like a Platform. An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity
The proposition at the heart of the book “Seeing Like a Platform” by Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark is that the digital era into which we are entering signifies the rise of a new epistemology of power.
10/16/2025 - 10/17/2025
Workshop
Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational
This international workshop—organised by Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), Center for Responsible AI Technologies and the Weizenbaum Institute—aims to use critical theories in order to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems…
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