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In their blog post, Julia Kling and Florian Töpfl examine the reach of RT and Sputnik between 2019 and 2021. One result: the media reached a small audience via their websites and mobile apps immediately before Russia’s…

In a guest article in the WELT, Julian Nida-Rümelin and Dorothea Winter discuss how ethically (un)problematic the speech synthesis system ChatGPT is.

Why we need new ideas for human-robot collaborations and what innovative collaboration in production can look like is being researched by the team of the bidt project “EmPReSs”.

Is the Digital Services Act (DSA) a suitable instrument for the fight against disinformation on the internet? Jan Schillmöller and Steliyana Doseva provide answers in their blog post.

In a guest article in the FAZ, Alexander Pretschner, Eric Hilgendorf, Ute Schmid and Hannah Schmid-Petri explore the question of what follows from the language AI ChatGPT.

Data can be understood as an economic good in its own right, shared and traded much like any other commodity. However, the bold prediction that data would become a ‘new asset class’ has yet to materialise.

Can an algorithm help youth welfare workers to act ethically? Michael Reder and Christopher Koska examine this question using the example of child welfare endangerment.

A conversation with Ute Schmid about the success factors and limits of AI and why it is worth looking into the black box of artificial intelligence – from medicine to art.

With its digital strategy, the coalition government is following up on previous efforts to coordinate digital policy across ministries. An assessment by Thomas Hess and Christoph Egle.

A conversation with Julia Gundlach from the Bertelsmann Foundation and Dr Roland A. Stürz, head of the bidt think tank, about the use of AI and algorithms, knowledge building in the population and opportunities for public…