Last week, the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung published a new position paper: “Wie Algorithmen verständlich werden”. The paper calls for making algorithmic decision-making processes understandable for stakeholders. Also, it highlights that this is vital for stakeholders to be able to comprehend the functioning of the systems. If stakeholders comprehend the functioning of […]
Month: November 2019
Kevin Baum presents at Ergosign
On November 15, Kevin Baum and Eva Schmidt paid a visit to Ergosign, a company focused on designing software applications in a user-friendly way (based in Saarbrücken, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, and Zurich). EIS strives to develop a framework that tells us what explanations users and affected parties need, and in which context, to gain […]
EIS at the Volkswagen Foundation’s Kick-Off Symposium
On November 7 and 8, EIS members Kevin Baum, Holger Hermanns, Lena Kästner, and Eva Schmidt participated in the kick-off symposium for the Volkswagen Foundation’s funding initiative “AI and the Society of the Future”. We presented a poster giving an overview over our project and Holger introduced EIS in a five-minute lightning talk. It was […]