On April 11, 2024, the concluding conference of the Human-Agent Interaction Network will take place at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Over the past four years, the network has been researching human interactions with artificial intelligence, particularly in the field of natural language processing. This has resulted in eight interdisciplinary research projects in which the IWM cooperates with researchers from various institutions, such as the University of Tübingen and the German Literature Archive.
The conference is entitled: "Interactions with Language-Based AI." In addition to keynote speeches by Dr. Minha Lee (Eindhoven Technological University) and Prof. Dr. Nils Köbis (Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security) and a panel discussion, there will also be a poster session with the participation of the RhetAI Center.
Anna Köhler and Salina Weber will present a poster on the topic: "Persuasive Algorithms — A Question of Ethos?" at the conference. In terms of content, the poster takes a rhetorical look at the interactions of users with chatbots or generative AIs. The poster focuses mainly on two questions: How users can learn a decidedly rhetorical AI competence and what role the rhetorical dimension of ethos plays for generative AIs and their persuasive power? With this approach, Anna Köhler and Salina Weber build an exciting theoretical framework within which relevant questions of user interactions with generative AIs can be negotiated.
The poster session will be held in English at the IWM from 14:15. Further information on the conference can be found here.
