The research group “Robotics and AI” (R-Fair) is primarily concerned with ethical questions of human-machine interaction - i.e. questions that arise in the interaction in hybrid systems between human and artificial actors - both from an embodied (robotic) and purely algorithmic perspective. The issues addressed in this context include fairness and non-discrimination, autonomy (of human actors as well as of the hybrid system), trust and supervision, manipulation and automation bias, privacy and data protection, as well as (political) publics and the effects of such systems on democratic processes.
