New research focus IRIS at the University of Stuttgart
New research focus IRIS at the University of Stuttgart What is the impact of intelligent systems on society? The newly founded "Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems" (IRIS) at the University of Stuttgart aims to address this question. With the election of Junior Professor Maria Wirzberger (Institute of Educational Science) as speaker and Professor Steffen Staab (Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems) as her deputy, the research network has now kicked off its activities. One of the university's strategic goals is to build the knowledge society needs to shape its future responsibly. With the IRIS network, researchers aim to cooperate with one another in a process of critical reflection on the foundations, mechanisms, implications, and effects of intelligent systems in research, teaching, and society as a whole. For example, at the interface between AI and ethics, the researchers are examining how discrimination can be prevented when artificial intelligence is used in automated decision-making, or how stereotyping can be avoided in technology development. "The new IRIS research network illustrates what the University of Stuttgart does especially well: discussing and researching hot topics in an interdisciplinary manner, which includes a broad range of perspectives," said Professor Wolfram Ressel, Rector of the University of Stuttgart. "IRIS brings together scientists from all disciplines at the university, from the AI researcher and the philosopher to the linguist and software engineer.
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