New DFG Project: Predictive Knowledge is Power

Our interdisciplinary research project “Predictive Knowledge is Power: Ethics and Law of Collective Privacy in the Data Society” (with Prof. Dr. Hannah Ruschemeier) will be funded by the DFG for the next three years.

The project investigates the societal risks of predictive AI applications – methods that generate predictions about people and their behavior from large-scale data. These technologies shape central areas of life such as human resources management, public services, policing, or national security, and thereby shift power relations in our society.

In collaboration between philosophy and law, we develop an ethical and legal analysis of the dangers of predictive knowledge production. The aim is to make collective protection interests visible and to contribute concrete regulatory proposals to ongoing debates on data protection, ethics, and AI governance.