Since the RHET AI Center was founded, the Journalist-in-Residence Program (JIR) has been an integral part of our annual program. Together with Cyber Valley, we enable journalists to spend an extended period of time in Tübingen conducting research on a topic at the intersection of artificial intelligence and journalism. During
The year 2025 marks the end of a successful, intense, and very active year for the RHET AI Center. Before we turn our attention to the new ideas, encounters, and challenges that await us in 2026, we would like to take a look back at some of the highlights of the past year. However, instead of recapping everything in detail month by month, we want to keep this review of 2025 very personal—told by those who helped shape this year. Before we focus on the individual highlights of our team members, however, it is worth taking a brief look at a few milestones that had a particular impact on us in 2025. A key moment was the presentation of the policy paper containing the recommendations of the Citizens' Council on AI and Freedom to the
Roughly a year ago, the citizens' council "AI and Freedom" met and exchanged views on the role society could play in AI-research and the support of it. Additionally, they discussed the way AI influences our individual and societal freedom. To the RHET AI Center and especially the
We are delighted to welcome a new Journalist-in-Residence (JIR) to Tübingen on October 1: Award-winning journalist and author Christoph Koch will begin his three-month research stay in October as part of the Journalist-in-Residence Programm run by Cyber Valley and RHET AI. As a columnist and tech reporter, he
Registration is now open – you can now register for the transformativ conference 2025 in Heilbronn! From December 2 to 4, the experimenta Science Center and the RHET AI Center invite you to join them in reflecting on the transformative role of artificial intelligence in our society
As an interdisciplinary research center, we at the RHET AI Center want to foster interdisciplinary exchange not only in our research work, but also in university teaching. For this reason, Nina Kalwa and Markus Gottschling offered a seminar in cooperation with each other during the winter semester
From June 18 — 21, several of our team members will be in Croatia, where the 9th conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE), organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, will take place under the motto "Rhetoric
The Call for Contributions for the transformativ-conference, organized by the RHET AI Center together with the experimenta Science Center in Heilbronn, has been extended until May 15, 2025. The RHET AI Center and the experimenta Science Center invite experts from theoretical and practical fields of work to
We are delighted to welcome a new Journalist-in-Residence (JIR) to Tübingen on October 1: Award-winning journalist and author Christoph Koch will begin his three-month research stay in October as part of the Journalist-in-Residence Programm run by Cyber
From June 18 — 21, several of our team members will be in Croatia, where the 9th conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE), organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the
On March 4, Mike Schäfer, Daniela Mahl and Sophia Volk from the Institute for Communication Science and Media Research (IKMZ) at UZH Zurich paid a visit to the RHET AI Center. Together, we presented our respective projects
Two new colleagues joined the RHET AI in October: welcome to the team Rafaela Pfeil and Fabian Erhardt. We met with them after they started at RHET AI and got to know them a little better.If you
The annual Cyber Valley event is just around the corner: next week, from June 19th to 21st, the Cyber Valley Days will take place in Stuttgart (June 19th) and Tübingen (June 20th and 21st). The three
Lecture: Writing the Histories of Animation in the Time of Artificial Intelligence
Since April, Kim Luther has been strengthening the Event Unit of the RHET AI Center as a doctoral student. In her work she deals intensively with technological progress in general and its processing through literature and other
