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Researchers from Tongji University visit KIT 

The Karls­ruhe Insti­tute of Tech­no­logy (KIT) has main­tained a close part­ner­ship with Tongji Uni­ver­sity in Shang­hai, China, for over 10 years. Part of the cooper­a­tion is, among oth­er things, an exchange pro­gram that enables research­ers from both uni­ver­sit­ies to get in touch with each oth­er and learn from each other. 

On July 12 and 13, 2024, the exchange took place in per­son for the first time since the pan­dem­ic. Six mem­bers of staff from Shang­hai Uni­ver­sity came to KIT to join loc­al research­ers in a two-day work­shop ded­ic­ated to the cul­tur­al stud­ies approach to arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence. Media and lit­er­ary stud­ies, philo­soph­ic­al, rhet­or­ic­al and lin­guist­ic per­spect­ives on AI were examined and dis­cussed from a cul­tur­al stud­ies per­spect­ive. The work­shop was organ­ized by the Insti­tute of Ger­man Stud­ies at KIT. As rep­res­ent­at­ives of the RHET AI Cen­ter, Monika Hanaus­ka and Anna Köhler took part and both gave a present­a­tion. Monika Hanaus­ka on the top­ic "Trau, schau wem? — Ver­trauenskon­struk­tion in medialen Diskur­sen zu Künst­lich­er Intel­li­genz" (Trust, see whom? — con­struc­tion of trust in medi­al dis­courses around Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence) and Anna Köhler about "Per­suas­ive Algorith­men – Eine Frage des Eth­os?" (Per­suas­ive Algorithms — a ques­tion of ethos?). 

The par­ti­cipants of the research stay enjoyed the intens­ive exchange and were able to take away new per­spect­ives and trains of thought. There are plans to con­tin­ue the exchange bilat­er­ally. Due to the pos­it­ive feed­back, the exchange pro­gram will con­tin­ue to take place, so that research­ers from KIT will be guests in Shang­hai in July 2025.