Thematic Focus

Artificial Intelligence 

liegender Mann und Roboter berühren sich im Michelangelo-Stil mit den Fingern

Jonas Willingstorfer für VolkswagenStiftung

While the innovations in the field of artificial intelligence are developing rapidly, man needs to remain the measure of all things. That's what this focus topic is all about: the field of tension between AI and society. 

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Portrait einer Frau

ehrenwerk.tv für VolkswagenStiftung

So that everyone can have their say: Citizens' assembly on AI research

To the story about Anika Kaiser and her research for a better dialogue between citizens and science

Funding offers #AI (terminated)

Illustration mit einem unbekleideten Mann und einem Roboter, deren Zeigefinger sich fast berühren, analog zum berühmten Gemälde von Michelangelo "Erschaffung Adams"
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Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future (completed)

The funding initiative was launched in 2017. It was aimed at researchers in the social and engineering sciences who devote themselves to the challenges of artificial intelligence and society in interdisciplinary research constellations.  

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Illustration: Eine Gruppe Menschen diskutiert hinter einem klassizistischen Gebäude
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Theme Week on Ethics of Science

#Artificial Intelligence

The Volkswagen Foundation was hosting a "Theme Week on Ethics of Science: Ethical Dimensions of AI Research and AI in Research" from August 07 to 09, 2024. It invited applications for scientific symposia that address the nexus of artificial intelligence and scientific research from an ethical perspective. 

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