Project Description

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a topic confined to narrow technical or economic circles. Still, it has long since arrived in our everyday lives: Whether chatbots in communication with companies or the administration, voice assistants and vacuum robots in the home, algorithmic decision-making systems in the recruitment of employees, or autonomously acting production robots in the workplace, artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in the way we communicate, live, and work.

Within the framework of the professorship's research, we address various questions related to socio-political negotiation processes and political control in the context of AI-based technologies. In this context, we examine the positions of political parties, actor constellations, and parliamentary debates, as well as the use of governance instruments, among other factors, for the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as from a comparative perspective.
 

Selected Publications
 

• König, Pascal D., Stefan Wurster & Markus B. Siewert. Consumers Are Willing to Pay a Price for Explainable AI, but Not for Green AI. Preprint July 2021. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3890774.
• Siewert, Markus B., Benedikte Eiden, Stefan Wurster & Pascal D. König. Wer hat den Schlüssel zur Schlüsseltechnologie? Ein Vergleich der Parteiprofile im Themenfeld Künstliche Intelligenz vor der Bundestagswahl 2021. Politik & Kommunikation. https://www.politik-kommunikation.de/ressorts/artikel/wer-hat-den-schluessel-zur-schluesseltechnologie-1821376773.