Topic: Digital responsibility
The digital transformation in all areas of life leads to ethical and legal issues when digital technologies are used for the common good, ranging from ensuring digital participation to data security.
How can AI support social work?
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.
Trust in AI for medical decisions
The bidt project “Responsibility gaps in human-machine interactions” investigates the appropriate trust in machines for medical decisions.
DigiMeet 2021 | Sustainability in digital transformation: charting new terrain, exploring tensions
The bidt, CAIS and Weizenbaum-Institute invite doctoral researchers to present their work at the newly established joint Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting – DigiMeet.
Open data
Open data refers to freely accessible, usable, modifiable and shareable data that anyone can use for any purpose. The term is usually used for public sector information.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence describes the branch of computer science dealing with the development of computer algorithms for problems that we humans are still better at solving.
Open source
Open-source software can be described as computer software (programmes) that can be used, modified and distributed free of charge.
Digitalisation
Originally a technical term, digitalisation broadly describes the use of various digital technologies and the associated, diverse transformation processes.
Digital transformation
In the first approach, digital transformation refers to changes in society or social subsystems accompanying digitalisation.