Scientific Talks

Coming Up

2021: “Grasping Psychopathology: On Complex and Computational Models” (JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner). Workshop: Machine Learnings meets Philosophy of Science, Tübingen, Germany
05.11.2020: “Mehr Autonomie durch erklärbare künstliche Intelligenzʺ [More Autonomy through Explainable Artificial Intelligence] (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt, Kevin Baum, and Nadine Schlicker). UX and beyond – Digitalisierung menschenzentriert gestalten. Usability in Germany conference, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
05.11.2020: Panel discussion: “Ethik in der Mensch-Technik Interaktion – lohnt sich digitale Verantwortung? ʺ [Ethics in Human-Technology Interaction – Is Digital Responsibility Worth It?] (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt). UX and beyond – Digitalisierung menschenzentriert gestalten. Usability in Germany conference, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
21.10.2020: “Causal Modelling and Computational Models” (JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner). Department of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Past talks and presentations

16.-30.06.2020: “A Question of Morality: Is There a Double Standard When It Comes to Algorithms?” (Prof. Dr. Cornelius König, Dr. Markus Langer, Tina Feldkamp). SIOP 2020 Virtual Conference.
16.-30.06.2020: “Interview Technology and AI: Effects on Applicants, Evaluators, and Adverse Impact” (Dr. Markus Langer). SIOP 2020 Virtual Conference.
06.-07.03.2020: ʺPragmatic Encroachment with Reasonsʺ (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt). Rutgers-Bochum Workshop in Philosophy. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America.
05.03.2020: “Fair Algorithmic Decision-Making: Unrealizable Dream or Actual Possibility?” (Timo Speith). Colloquium session, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Kaiserslautern, Germany.
10.12.2019: ʺPragmatic Encroachment with Reasonsʺ (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt). Winter workshop of the ERC Project Competence and Success in Epistemology and Beyond, Helsinki, Finland.
29.11.2019: ʺVerantwortung, Vertrauen, Rechte – Über die ethische Dimension erklärbarer KIʺ [Responsibility, Trust, Rights – On the Ethical Dimensions of Explainable AI] (Kevin Baum). Conference on the Responsibility of Digitized Companies – The Ethical and Legal Consequences of the Use of Artificial Intelligence, Edmundsburg, Salzburg, Austria.
26.11.2019: ʺPhänomene erklären, Mechanismen entdeckenʺ [Explaining Phemonema, Discovering Mechanisms] (JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner). Departmental colloquium for philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
07.11.2019: ʺExplainable Intelligent Systems (EIS)ʺ (Prof. Holger Hermanns, JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt, JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner, and Kevin Baum; poster and presentation as planning grant lightning talk). Kick-off symposium Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future by the Volkswagen Foundation, Herrenhausen Castle, Hanover, Germany.
06.10.2019: ʺPsychological Perspectives on the Automation in Managementʺ (Dr. Markus Langer). University of Calgary, Canada.
02.10.2019: ʺXAI and Psychology – Issues and Experimental Investigationsʺ (Prof. Dr. Cornelius König, Dr. Markus Langer, Nadine Schlicker). Workshop: Issues in Explainable AI – Black Boxes, Recommendations and Levels of Explanation, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
26.09.2019: ʺExplainable Artificial Intelligence als neues Thema für die AOW Psychologieʺ (Prof. Dr. Cornelius König, JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner, Dr. Markus Langer). 11th Convention by the Panel for Professional, Organizational and Economic Psychology of the German Society for Psychology, Brunswick, Germany.
25.09.2019: ʺExplainability as a Non-Functional Requirementʺ (Maximilian Köhl and Timo Speith). 27th International Requirements Engineering Conference, Jeju Island, South Korea.
13.09.2019: ʺAnforderungen an die Erklärbarkeit maschinengestützter Entscheidungenʺ [Requirements on the Explainabilty of Machine-Aided Decisions] (Kevin Baum and Andreas Sesing). 20th Fall Academy of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science (DSRI), Bremen, Germany.
13.09.2019: Symposium on the paper ʺNetwork Models and Their Variablesʺ (main author: JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner; co-authors: Assoc. Prof. Matteo Colombo, Asst. Prof. Markus Eronen, Dr. Josephine Lenssen). Explanation in Psychiatry: From Pluralism to Integration – and Back Again?, organized by the European Philosophy of Science Association, Geneva, Switzerland.
01.07.2019: ʺExplainable Intelligent Systems – Reasons, Causes, and Componentsʺ (JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner, JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt and Kevin Baum; invited talk). Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
07.06.2019: ʺModelling Mental Disorders – Cognitive, Causal, Both or Neither?ʺ (JProf. Dr. Lena Kästner; invited talk). Modelling workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
06.-07.06.2019: ʺPragmatic Encroachment with Reasonsʺ (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt). Workshop: Dimensions of Rationality – Practical Reasons for Belief and Other Attitudes, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
27.05.2019: ʺKünstliche intelligente Systeme – Vertrauen und Verstehenʺ [Artificial Intelligent Systems: Trust and Understanding] (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt; part of a lecture series on artifical intelligence). University of Zurich, Switzerland.
04.-05.04.2019: ʺStatistical Evidence and the Role of Algorithms in Criminal Justiceʺ (JProf. Dr. Eva Schmidt and Andreas Sesing). Evidence in Law and Ethics (ELE 2019), Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
29.03.2019: ʺDie Evolution der künstlichen Intelligenz – Warum wir uns einmischen können und solltenʺ [The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence – Why We Can and Should Interfere] (Dr. Markus Langer). Opening talk at the Be-In Student Congress of the Association of German Professional Psychologists, Heidelberg, Germany.
07.-09.03.2019: ʺArtificial Intelligence in Psychological Assessment: Why Psychology Needs to Careʺ (Dr. Markus Langer). International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, France.
07.03.2019: ʺTrusting Artificial Expertsʺ (Felix Bräuer and Kevin Baum). Workshop: Epistemic Trust in the Epistemology of Expert Testimony, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

Interdisciplinary panels

The EIS panel ”Explainable Intelligent Systems and the Trustworthiness of Artificial Experts” was accepted to and held at the following conferences:

The panel included the following papers:

“Why Explainable AI Matters Morally” (Kevin Baum, Holger Hermanns, Timo Speith)
“Artificial Intelligent Systems: Reasonable Trust Requires Rationalizing Explanations” (Felix Bräuer, Eva Schmidt, Ulla Wessels)
“What Kind of Explanation Shall Artificial Experts Provide?” (Lena Kästner, Daniel Oster, Andreas Sesing)
“How the Kind of Explanation Affects People’s Reactions to Artificial Experts” (Tina Feldkamp, Cornelius König, Markus Langer)