It comes as no surprise when we say that we are living in turbulent times. As we are facing a global pandemic, organizers of conferences have taken precautionary measures. The spread of COVID-19 has affected our schedules, too. In the following, we will present our updated list of upcoming events. The Usability in Germany conference […]
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Kevin Baum: two brand-new engagements
We are happy to announce that, besides EIS, Kevin has earned two brand-new engagements. First, he is now the vice-chair and active member of the Committee for Ethics in Security-Relevant Research at Saarland University. Second, he has been elected a permanent expert on ethical and societal issues for the Commission of Inquiry Digitization in Saarland. […]
Coming up…
It has been a while since we last made announcements but right now, we are excited to share some of the things we have been working on in silence. First, Timo Speith will give a talk at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His talk will take place on March 5, 2020, […]
CDR & EIS: A Perfect Match
From November 29th to December 1st, Kevin attended an interdisciplinary conference on the “Responsibility of Digitized Companies” (“Verantwortlichkeit digitalisierter Unternehmen”) at the invitation of the University of Salzburg. At the congress, all kinds of topics in the field of Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) were discussed. Also, one important question was how to conceptualize the relevant […]
Lena Kästner presents in Stuttgart
Last week, Lena Kästner visited the philosophy department at University of Stuttgart. Her visit was hosted by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pompe-Alama. In the local colloquium, Lena presented some recent work on mechanistic explanations and scientific discovery to philosophers and experts in the history of science and technology. The core idea of Lena’s discovery account is […]
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 […]
EIS at RE’19
One of the biggest coups for EIS was to have a paper accepted at the renowned IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference during the project’s planning grant period. Consequently, Maximilian Köhl and Timo Speith, two of the paper’s authors, flew to South Korea to present their work to an interested community. During their stay, both of them […]
Our first workshop: Issues in Explainable AI
After months of preparation, we were happy to successfully launch our very first workshop “Issues in Explainable AI: Black Boxes, Recommendations, and Levels of Explanation” on September 30, 2019. Researchers from different disciplines gave their presentations in front of a broad and engaging audience. The interest in our workshop was so high that our workshop […]
Public outreach event at Saarbrücken town hall
Yesterday, the final part of our three-day workshop took place: the public discussion ”Erklärbare Intelligente Systeme: Verstehen. Verantwortung. Vertrauen.” (Explainable Intelligent Systems: Understanding. Responsibility. Trust.) We were happy that the Saarland University president Prof. Manfred J. Schmitt accepted our invitation and addressed the audience at the beginning of the evening. In his address, he expressed […]
EIS at the conference for industrial, organizational and economic psychology (AOW) 2019 in Braunschweig (September 26, 2019)
Last week, Lena Kästner and Markus Langer had the opportunity to present the topic Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and the idea behind our research project Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS) to an attentive audience at the AOW 2019. A fascinating discussion was prompted, following the presentation of the two researchers and after having bridged the terminological […]
Workshop: final program, abstracts, new location, …
You can now download the final version of our program as well as a compilation of abstracts on our workshop page. Please note that due to high demand, our workshop location has been changed to building E 2.1, room 0.1. In case you are not familiar with our campus, please find a map of it […]
EIS goes green
At the invitation of the local university branch of the Fridays for Future movement, Kevin Baum gave a talk on digitization and climate change. Besides an overview of the direct and indirect effects of digital products, he also emphasized the need for better ways of decision-making in a complex world with interdependent policy possibilities. He […]
EIS Symposium at EuroCogSci 2019 in Bochum
The EIS team contributed an interdisciplinary symposium on “Explainable Intelligent Systems and the Trustworthiness of Artificial Experts” to the conference EuroCogSci, with Tina Feldkamp, Daniel Oster, Eva Schmidt, and Timo Speith as speakers. We used the symposium to give some of our junior researchers a chance to present in front of an international audience, and […]
Predictive Policing: Andreas Sesing at the Filmhaus Saarbrücken
Software predicting when and where a crime is about to be committed: What may sound like a scenario from science fiction in the style of ”Minority Report” has in the meantime become reality in cities such as Chicago, London or Munich. And whether we are dangerous subjects is already being decided by computers these days. […]
EIS at the 20th Fall Academy of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science
Kevin Baum and Andreas Sesing will partake in the 20th Fall Academy of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science (DSRI). Their paper on ”Requirements for the Explainability of Machine-aided Decisions” (”Anforderungen an die Erklärbarkeit maschinengestützter Entscheidungen”) was accepted. The Fall Academy is taking place in Bremen between September 11 and September 14, 2019. […]
Delivering EIS to the Broad Public II
Kevin Baum continues to deliver insights from our project to the broad public in four non-scientific talks this month alone. The second two are taking place this week. On June 24, Kevin will give a talk on the ethical dimensions of algorithms used to predict remaining lifetime and premature deaths at the Hospizgespräche of the […]
Delivering EIS to the Broad Public
Kevin Baum will deliver fresh insights from our project to the broad public in four non-scientific talks this month alone. The first two are taking place next week. On June 11, Kevin will give a talk on ethical aspects of the application of algorithms in health care and medical care at the 372th Saarlandic Conference […]
Eva Schmidt presents “Künstliche Intelligente Systeme: Vertrauen und Verstehen” at University of Zurich
On Monday, May 27, at 4:15 pm, Eva Schmidt will give a talk entitled “Künstliche Intelligente Systeme: Vertrauen und Verstehen”/”Artificial Intelligent Systems: Trust and Understanding” as part of a cycle of lectures on artificial intelligence organized by the philosophy students at the University of Zurich.
EIS at Saarland University’s Open Day
EIS is contributing two talks to Saarland University’s open day. Timo Speith (research assistant: Chair of Theoretical Philosophy) will give an introduction to the Dimensions of Machine Explainability (10 am, room HS 26, building B4 1). After that, Kevin Baum (research assistant: Chair of Practical Philosophy, Dependable Systems Group) will present current research regarding the […]