Events ComAI-Lectures All ComAI-Lectures are held in English and are recored. The recordings of the ComAI-Lectures can be found on our YouTube-Channel. ComAI-LecturesSummer Semester 2025 Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zürich): "Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Changing Public Communication about Science" Datum: 25. April 2025Location: Bremer Presse-Club The presentation highlights how science communicators and journalists use GenAI, how tools like ChatGPT present science, how citizens use GenAI to inform themselves about science, and the effects of these developments. 7. January 2025 ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 ComAI Lectures Fall Semester 2024/25 Datum: 19. November 2024 – 14. January 2025 9. October 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Prof. Dr. Jeremy Knox (University of Oxford & University of Edinburgh): "AI, Education, and Power" Datum: 17. December 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 9. October 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Prof. Dr. Claes de Vreese (Universiteit van Amsterdam): "The AI Effect: How (generative) AI is reshaping discussions about elections and democracy" Datum: 26. November 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 9. October 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Ralf Bendrath (Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament): "How the EU's AI Act came about. Insights from a Negotiator" Datum: 19. November 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 9. October 2024 ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 ComAI Lectures will continue in Spring / Summer 2024 Datum: 30. April 2024 – 25. June 2024 26. March 2024 ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 Prof. Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): "Human-AI interaction: How hotel customers are disciplined by a facial recognition kiosk" Datum: 25. June 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 26. March 2024 ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 Prof. Dr. Benedetta Brevini (NYU and University of Sydney): "Between Power and Nature: provocative reflections for an Eco-Political Economy of AI“ Datum: 18. June 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 26. March 2024 ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane): "AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News“ Datum: 30. April 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 22. March 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Fall / Winter 2023/24 Datum: 21. November 2023 – 30. January 2024 2. February 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. Petter Bae Brandtzaeg (University of Oslo, Norway): „The Future of Free Speech in an AI-Driven Society“ Datum: 30. January 2024Location: SFG 21. January 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Dr. Arne Hintz (Cardiff University, UK): „Deciding about Communicative AI: Governance, Participation and Social Justice“ Datum: 16. January 2024Location: Cartesium 16. January 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Prof. Dr. Sonja Utz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien IWM & Eberhard Karls University Tübingen): "Credibility of communicative AI" Datum: 14. January 2025Location: Bremer Presse-Club 14. January 2024 ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA): „The Relational Turn: A Techno-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond“ - "Person, Thing, Robot - European Tour“ Datum: 5. December 2023Location: Cartesium 5. December 2023 ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK): "AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab" Datum: 28. November 2023Location: Cartesium 26. November 2023 ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden): „Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in friction“ Datum: 21. November 2023Location: Cartesium 1. November 2023
ComAI-LecturesSummer Semester 2025 Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zürich): "Science Communication and Artificial Intelligence: How AI is Changing Public Communication about Science" Datum: 25. April 2025Location: Bremer Presse-Club The presentation highlights how science communicators and journalists use GenAI, how tools like ChatGPT present science, how citizens use GenAI to inform themselves about science, and the effects of these developments. 7. January 2025
ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 ComAI Lectures Fall Semester 2024/25 Datum: 19. November 2024 – 14. January 2025 9. October 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Prof. Dr. Jeremy Knox (University of Oxford & University of Edinburgh): "AI, Education, and Power" Datum: 17. December 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 9. October 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Prof. Dr. Claes de Vreese (Universiteit van Amsterdam): "The AI Effect: How (generative) AI is reshaping discussions about elections and democracy" Datum: 26. November 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 9. October 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Ralf Bendrath (Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament): "How the EU's AI Act came about. Insights from a Negotiator" Datum: 19. November 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 9. October 2024
ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 ComAI Lectures will continue in Spring / Summer 2024 Datum: 30. April 2024 – 25. June 2024 26. March 2024
ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 Prof. Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): "Human-AI interaction: How hotel customers are disciplined by a facial recognition kiosk" Datum: 25. June 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 26. March 2024
ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 Prof. Dr. Benedetta Brevini (NYU and University of Sydney): "Between Power and Nature: provocative reflections for an Eco-Political Economy of AI“ Datum: 18. June 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 26. March 2024
ComAI-LecturesSpring Semester 2024 Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane): "AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News“ Datum: 30. April 2024Location: Bremer Presse-Club 22. March 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Fall / Winter 2023/24 Datum: 21. November 2023 – 30. January 2024 2. February 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. Petter Bae Brandtzaeg (University of Oslo, Norway): „The Future of Free Speech in an AI-Driven Society“ Datum: 30. January 2024Location: SFG 21. January 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Dr. Arne Hintz (Cardiff University, UK): „Deciding about Communicative AI: Governance, Participation and Social Justice“ Datum: 16. January 2024Location: Cartesium 16. January 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semster 24/25 Prof. Dr. Sonja Utz (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien IWM & Eberhard Karls University Tübingen): "Credibility of communicative AI" Datum: 14. January 2025Location: Bremer Presse-Club 14. January 2024
ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. David Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA): „The Relational Turn: A Techno-Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond“ - "Person, Thing, Robot - European Tour“ Datum: 5. December 2023Location: Cartesium 5. December 2023
ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. Nick Couldry (LSE, UK): "AI as knowledge capture and colonial landgrab" Datum: 28. November 2023Location: Cartesium 26. November 2023
ComAI-LecturesFall Semester 23/24 Prof. Dr. Julia Velkova (Linköping University, Sweden): „Greening the cloud: data and energy entanglements in friction“ Datum: 21. November 2023Location: Cartesium 1. November 2023
