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bidt-Digitalbarometer 2025: Digital skills are essential in everyday life
The “bidt-Digitalbarometer 2025” shows that digital skills are key for everyday life, work and participation. Skill levels rise slightly, but differences remain. The study examines developments across life stages.
Call for proposals opened: Programmes for early career researchers Graduate Center for Postdocs and Digitalisation Labs
Promoting young talent: The bidt is advertising the bidt Digitalisation Colleges and the bidt Graduate Centre for postdocs – with a focus on digital skills and AI applications.
SZ interview with sociologist Sabine Pfeiffer: “Humans will still be ahead of AI in 2035”
In an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sabine Pfeiffer explains how digitalization and AI are transforming our work world. At the same time, she cautions against exaggerated Silicon Valley narratives and calls for a realistic…
ARD alpha Tagesgespräch with Margret Hornsteiner: “100 days of the Merz government: Are you satisfied?”
The Tagesgespräch on BR2 and ARD alpha takes stock of 100 days of the black-red coalition. Margret Hornsteiner is a studio guest who assesses developments from a political science perspective.
Tagesspiegel Background – Guest article on the potential of data spaces
In a guest article for Tagesspiegel Background, Thomas Hess and Christoph Egle explain the need for systematic consolidation of data spaces.
The concept of trust in interdisciplinary research on human-AI interaction
How do we understand trust in AI in interdisciplinary research? This article addresses the conceptual ambiguity between different research disciplines and proposes a possible common working concept of trust in AI.
Between reconnaissance and manipulation: deepfakes in law enforcement
Generative AI also opens up completely new possibilities in law enforcement, including the use of deepfakes to infiltrate criminal organisations. But would this be technically possible, ethically justifiable and legally feasible?
What is explainable artificial intelligence? How explanations influence trust in human-AI interaction
How can AI decisions be made more understandable? This article uses examples to show how explanations can be used effectively in human-AI interaction and what role they play in building trust.
Digitalisation as an opportunity: how an app can support palliative care
How can digitalisation succeed in sensitive medical fields such as palliative care? In this interview, researchers from the bidt project “PALLADiUM” explain how the app they have developed improves communication and collaboration.
How much trust does generative AI deserve?
Generative artificial intelligence has long been part of everyday life, but how reliable are its results? In this interview, bidt Director Ute Schmid explains why trust in AI is more than just technical confidence.