International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Scientific Cooperation and Partnership IZEW - UNC

The project "Scientific Cooperation and Partnership IZEW - UNC" is a commitment of the IZEW staff to building and strengthening the scientific networks between the Universities of Tübingen and North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project is part of the Strategic Partnership Tübingen - UNC, which is part of the International Affairs and Diversity Department at the University of Tübingen.

The aim of the networking and partnership is to foster transatlantic dialogue on the ethics of Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization between the two research and development hubs. With the Cyber Valley in and around Tübingen and Stuttgart, the AI-Alliance in Baden-Württemberg and the Research Triangle between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, the project connects two regions in Germany and the USA that are strong in business and science. The research and development of ethically sound AI applications, transnational platforms, and socio-technical conditions for their development is a concern of the IZEW and its partners at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Team

Current Collaborations

International Workshop: “Sociotechnical Consequences of AI: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ethical, Organizational, Social, and Computational Dimensions”

Planned to take place in fall 2024 at UNC, the goal of the workshop is to bolster exchange between experts at UNC and UT on the implications of Artificial Intelligence on societal, organizational, technical, and ethical contexts by building from different academic perspectives.

Policy Hackathon: “Hacking Accountability: The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in American and European perspectives”

The aim of the two-day policy hackathon, likely to take place in early fall 2024 at UNC, is to assess the state of the art of AI regulatory efforts in a transatlantic comparative fashion while also identifying gaps in regulation and engaging stakeholders in charge of legislating accountability for fast-evolving contemporary AI.

Previous Collaborations

Joint Panel and Special Interest Group "Platform (In)Justice" at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) with the participation of Dr. Nanditha Narayanamoorthy (UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life) and Heesoo Jang (UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media) as well as Dr. Simon Hirsbrunner (IZEW), Dr. Lou Brandner (IZEW) and Laura Schelenz (IZEW), October 14 - 18, 2023, Minneapolis, USA

“Panel Paper: Platform (In)Justice – A Call for a Global Research Agenda”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3608439

“Special Interest Group on Platform (In)Justice in Minneapolis”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3606953

Scientific exchange with Prof. Mohammad Jarrahi (UNC School of Information and Library Science), July 19, 2023, Tübingen, Germany

„Exchange on Human-AI Symbiosis, Algorithms, and Work“: Flyer

UNC Royster Global Conference, with the participation of Dr. Saeedeh Babaii (IZEW) and Laura Schelenz (IZEW), May 30 – June 2, 2023, Chapel Hill, USA

UNC-Tübingen Partnership Panel "Reconfiguring Justice and Equity: Content Governance Models for Platform Violence" at the Symposium "Social Justice and Technological Futures" with the participation of Prof. Shannon McGregor (UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media), Dr. Nanditha Narayanamoorthy (UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life), Heesoo Jang (UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media), May 2-3, 2023, Tübingen, Germany

„UNC at Symposium on Social Justice and Technological Futures”: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/245305