Our colleague Dr. Anne Burkhardt, together with Dr. Beatrice Bonami (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) and Dr. Francielle Vargas (University of Santiago, Chile), successfully established a new working group on „AI & Global Justice“ at the Tübingen Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS). The working group In line
AI for Good: Global Responsible Innovation and Business Transformation Dr. Anne Burkhardt will represent the RHET AI Center from 24–27 September, 2026 at the Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology (BRAGFOST) Symposium in Goiania, Brazil, where she will present her research from the past four years
We are delighted to announce that the RHET AI Center will receive a second funding phase by the Volkswagen foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) as part of the „Science cubed“ initiative. Since its launch, the RHET AI center has investigated how Artificial Intelligence is perceived by society, what narratives and
European Doctoral Network on Multilingualism, Language Awareness, and Digitalization — Applications for doctoral positions now possible How is digital transformation changing our awareness of language? What role do multilingualism and linguistic diversity play in social participation and cohesion? And how can challenges such as linguistic inequality,
Is it possible to generate an episode in the style of an established comedy podcast using various AI tools and produce a result that sounds as authentic as possible? Driven by this question, the podcast project was born: a collaboration between the entertainment podcast DAS PODCAST UFO and
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
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
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 rapid and far-reaching transformations of our living and working environments through Artificial Intelligence have different and deeply unequal implications and effects around the world. For researchers and (science) communicators engaged with AI, it is therefore
With great pleasure we welcome Dr. Zoltan Majdik from North Dakota State University as the third guest in this series at the University of Tübingen. As co-director of the Center for the Study of Digital Society,
AI for Good: Global Responsible Innovation and Business Transformation Dr. Anne Burkhardt will represent the RHET AI Center from 24–27 September, 2026 at the Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology (BRAGFOST) Symposium in Goiania, Brazil, where
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
