Ethics and Social Philosophy of the Digital Society
I am the head of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. My team works on contemporary critical philosophy of the digital world. Our projects cover the ethics of AI, data protection and Big Data, digital technology and power, and digital enlightenment.
Videos
Prädiktive Privatheit in 15 Minuten erklärt: Warum wir angesichts künstlicher Intelligenz neue Ansätze im Datenschutz brauchen. Keynote auf der Jahrestagung des Forum Privatheit, 18. November 2021
Vortrag „Predictive Privacy: Datenschutz im Zeitalter von KI“, 31. Mai 2021, Ringvorlesung Internet und Privatheit, Technische Universität Berlin.
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Watch my Introduction to the Ethics of AI online!
I am teaching the Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in a hybrid on-site/online format.
Article on Predictive Privacy appeared in Ethics and Information Technology (open access)
Data analytics and data-driven approaches in Machine Learning are now among the most hailed computing technologies in many industrial domains. One major appl...
Professor of Ethics of AI at Osnabrück University
I will be joining the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück as a professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence as of August 2021.
New paper on automated inequality in the context of Big Data and AI in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
In this recent article, I describe my approach to an ethics of AI that is in close contact with social philosophy and critical theories in order to address i...
Predictive Privacy project nominated for „Forum Junge Spitzenforscher*innen“ award
This year, the FJS, funded by Stiftung Industrieforschung, awarded prizes to the “most innovative ideas on Artificial Intelligence”. My project on Predictiv...
Guest at the podium on „AI in Medical Imaging“ with Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs and Prof. Dr. Daniel Rückert, Fernuniversität Hagen
5 November 2020, 18.00-19.30: AI in Medical Imaging. Speakers: Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs (RFWU Bonn), Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff (TU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Daniel Rüc...
“Predictive Privacy: Towards an Applied Ethics of Data Analytics” – Preprint now online at SSRN
Data analytics and data-driven approaches in Machine Learning are now among the most hailed computing technologies in many industrial domains. One major appl...
Article on “Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence” (New Media & Society) now available Open Access
My article “Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence: Or, How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains? Toward a media sociology of machine learning” is now publ...
Text in den Blättern: „Die Illusion der Anonymität: Big Data im Gesundheitssystem“
Anonymisierte Massendaten, wie sie zum Beispiel im Gesundheitssystem gesammelt werden, bergen erhebliche Datenschutzrisiken. In vielen Fällen ist eine Re-Id...
New Project on Ethics of Location-Data Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
On July 1, 2020, the project “SIMPORT” - Sovereign and Intuitive Management of Location Information - will start. In this exciting network of computer scien...
Data Protection Impact Assessment of Corona Tracing App available in English
I am part of the team of FIfF e.V. releasing a Data Protection Impact Assessment for Corona Tracing App Systems.
Interview on Turbo Digitalization after Covid-19 and Data Protection of the Corona App in the Greek Newspaper Epohi
Οδηγούμαστε σε μια τούρμπο-ψηφιοποίηση
We released a Data Protection Impact Assessment for Corina Tracing App systems (PEPP-PT, DP-3T)
I am part of the team of FIfF e.V. releasing a Data Protection Impact Assessment for Corona Tracing App Systems.
We Need to Think Data Protection Beyond Privacy
With Covid tracking apps on the horizon, everyone is debating privacy now. But data protection is more than privacy! Turbo-Digitization after Covid-19 will ...
Commentary on “Digital Fundamental Rights After Covid-19: Why We Need A New Debate On Data Protection”
[Commentary on Netzpolitik.org] (in German):
Key Note: „Resonance, Affect and Power: Affect theory of subjectivation with Spinoza and Foucault“, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt.
International Graduate School „Resonant Self-World Relations“ at Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt. I’m giving a Key Note on Resonance, Affect and Pow...
Talk on Digital Counter-Enlightenment, Surveillance by Design, and Collective Data Protection at Geoinformatics Forum, Universität Münster
Tuesday January 21, 2020, 12:15–13:00, Universität Münster, Institute for Geoinformatics, Heisenbergstraße 2, 48149 Münster.
Article on “Human-Aided AI” now published in New Media & Society
My article “Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence: Or, How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains? Toward a media sociology of machine learning” is now publ...
Talk on my project “Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence” at GFM annual conference 2019 in Cologne.
Paper presentation on the Annual Conference of the German Society of Media Studies 2019 in Cologne (in German).
Transitioning to TU Berlin
I’m happy to announce that as of October I will transition to the newly founded Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence at Technische Universität Berlin....
New article on “Human-Aided AI” out
My article Menschengestützte Künstliche Intelligenz. Über die soziotechnischen Voraussetzungen von «deep learning» just appeared in Zeitschrift für Medienwis...
Live at Deutschlandfunk Kultur Radio, Sein und Streit, 21.07.2019, 13:05 pm
Anja Breljak and Rainer Mühlhoff are speaking with moderator Christian Möller on “Wie affektgetrieben ist das Netz?”
Book Release “Affekt Macht Netz” – 15.7.2019, 8 pm, @Antiquariat Kalligramm, Berlin
We are happy to invite to our Book Release event for our volume „Affekt Macht Netz. Auf dem Weg zu einer Sozialtheorie der Digitalen Gesellschaft“.
Book “Affekt Macht Netz” published (Open Access)
Rainer Mühlhoff, Anja Breljak and Jan Slaby jointly edited the new volume “Affekt Macht Netz. Auf dem Weg zu einer Sozialtheorie der Digitalen Gesellschaft”...
Speaking on „Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence, or: How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains?“ at the HCC – Human-Centered Computing Group, Freie Universität Berlin
I’m excited to present my work at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, “Human-Centered Computing” Group (Prof. Claudia Müller-Birn) at Freie ...
