When Germany powers down the last of its nuclear power plants on Saturday, it will mark a historic shift decades in the making—and comes in the midst of fierce debates about how Germany and Europe will ensure their energy security for tough winters ahead and meet their ambitious climate goals.
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Germany’s last three nuclear power plants close their doors on Saturday, marking the end of the country’s nuclear era that has more than six decades. Nuclear power has long been controversial in Germany.
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Prof. Urs Gasser from the Technical University of Munich does not believe in interrupting the training of artificial intelligence. In the following guest article, he comments on the call for a moratorium on the development of AI tools.
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Timm Betz, with co-authors Diana Z. O'Brien (Washington University in St. Louis) and David Fortunato (University of California, San Diego), was awarded the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award from the Midwest Political Science Association for the Best Paper on the topic of Women and Politics. The paper,…
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The training of AI systems from GPT-4 onwards is to be interrupted so that the risks can first be assessed and generally applicable guidelines for dealing with such adaptive systems can be developed. But how sensible and feasible is this?
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Congratulations to Selina Schwaabe, who was recognized for her presentation at the 17th International Conference on Community and Administrative Pharmacies (ICCAP) with the ICCAP 2023 Best Presentation Award! Selina Schwaabe is a doctoral candidate at the Chair for International Relations. IR Chair…
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Women who are politically active in social media are frequently faced with online hate speech. The extent and causes of this form of misogyny as well as possible countermeasures were addressed in a discussion event in Brussels on March 21. Prof. Dr. Janina Steinert presented a survey conducted among…
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