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Public service broadcasting is subject to the legal mandate of ensuring diversity; but what about when algorithmic processes and software-based selections influence the delivery of content on online platforms? The project “Coding…

AI and related technologies keep shaping our society, providing us with more and more solutions that seemed impossible only a few years ago. This blog post gives an insight into the research field of bioinformatics, showing…

In this project, we built a prototype AI email editor with text generation from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and asked 156 people to write emails with it. We compared different user interface settings and use by native…

What are quantum computers, and why can they perform operations that conventional computers cannot handle? Explained by professor Stefan Filipp.

Digital content is ubiquitous, the legal systems of states are local. Conflict of laws is usually the legal solution, but it does not always and not completely fit. Comprehensive and functional comparative law can be the methodological…

Lawyer Dirk Heckmann relies on creativity to shape such a dynamic field as digitalisation. Interdisciplinary cooperation, which is what bidt is all about, is also crucial.

Germany’s internet institutes are moving closer together: The Weizenbaum Institute, bidt and CAIS are joining forces to better promote young researchers.

The blog post traces which interest groups and various stakeholders were able to influence the legislative process in terms of their interests and positions.

Ordinary citizens involvement in scientific research should not be taken as a matter of course. Nevertheless, the history of science has over time seen various forms of civil society participation, including Citizen Science…

AI is the abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence – but what is Explainable AI all about? Ute Schmid explains the term.