Enabler: Automation

Opinion power control and diversity monitoring in the platform age
Platforms are changing individual and public opinion-forming processes and gaining power of opinion. The article sheds light on how opinion power can be captured and regulated in the platform age.

Digital culture of remembrance
Encounters with living witnesses of the Holocaust are an important part of Holocaust education. But can the memories also be made accessible digitally and interactively for future generations?

The challenges of regulating dual-use technologies in arms control
Dual-use technologies such as cyber, bio and AI technology offer diverse, sometimes unknown military applications and thus challenge international arms control.

Smart Government
Smart government uses intelligently networked information and communication technologies, including smart objects and cyber-physical systems, to make government and administrative processes more efficient and effective.

The growing threat of ransomware attacks – current trends and challenges
Ransomware encrypts data and extorts money for its release. Thanks to better technology and digital payments, these globally lucrative and difficult-to-trace attacks are on the rise.

Everything-as-a-Service business models for the industry
Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) business models offer companies a flexible alternative to traditional purchasing and leasing by providing products and services as subscription-based services.

The future of university exams: ChatGPT and the era of e-exams
Electronic exams and AI: opportunity for better exams or devaluation of higher education?

The interaction between humans and robots: How do people experience intelligent machines?
How we experience robots influences how we deal with them. This article outlines various phenomena of how we experience robots in social and work environments with a particular emphasis on ethical principles.

ESG data value chain
Financial institutions require ESG information for sustainable products. Specialised service providers offer extensive data sets for this purpose, including from sustainability reports published by companies.

Ethical decisions of autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles make decisions in traffic that can affect the safety of road users. Don’t these decisions have a normative component that needs to be taken into account?