Research Unit "Communicative AI"

When chatbots answer questions, voice assistants organise appointments, or AI tools summarise texts, this doesn’t just affect individual users—it also shapes how we communicate as a society. The DFG and FWF funded Research Unit “Communicative AI” (ComAI) explores what happens when AI systems increasingly take on communicative tasks and roles: in media and public debate, in organisations, in education, healthcare, and everyday life. Bringing together perspectives from media and communication studies, sociology, computer science/HCI, and legal and governance research, ComAI asks how these developments change practices, dependencies, and the ways we imagine possible futures.

Further down this page you can find information on the ComAI projects based at ZeMKI. For news and background on all other projects and the research unit as a whole, please visit the ComAI website: comai.space.