As part of the Integrated Research cluster (sub-cluster 3), the ANKER project deals with the inclusion of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence in research and innovation processes.

In ANKER:

1. existing anchor objects are examined

2. new anchor objects are designed and tested

3.  proven anchor objects are made accessible

While integrated research is generally regarded as a suitable constellation for responsible innovation and technology development, it remains unclear how processes involving stakeholders and representatives from fields such as ethics, social science and law can be implemented in a methodologically sound, transparent, effective and reflective manner. Against this background, the project combines integrated research and open science and explores how transdisciplinary cooperation can be comprehensibly anchored in the heterogeneous worlds of experience and knowledge of the participants through digitally open artefacts and thus concretized and stabilized. To this end, the concept of anchor objects will be utilized and developed. From the broad spectrum of integrated research, the inclusion of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and innovation projects is focused on because this field of application currently poses particularly great ethical challenges.