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We are a young and diverse team working on a broad range of topics. An inclusive working atmosphere, gender equality, and consideration of the needs of young scholars with children are particularly important to us. We sincerely welcome requests for collaborations and invite interested people to reach out and join us , for instance, in our colloquium
Team members
| Prof. Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff |
 | Rainer’s research on Artificial Intelligence starts from the assumption that Machine Learning Systems are sociotechnical systems (see “Human-Aided AI”). To map out the ethical and societal implications AI technology, he uses different philosophical schools and perspectives to analyze the interplay of technology, power and subjectivation. In particular, he brings together ethics with social philosophy and critical theories to analyse the effects of AI in terms of discrimination, social selection and inequality (see “Automatisierte Ungleicheit”). A particular research interest is data ethics in the Context of AI and Big Data. These technologies make it possible to predict sensitive information about individuals based on the anonymized data of many other data subjects. This results in a novel, collectively induced invasion of privacy of the individuals concerned, raising new questions of collective responsibility in the digital society. Under the title Predictive Privacy Rainer works on an ethical and regulatory approach to restricting negative impact of predictive analytics. |
| E-Mail: rainer.muehlhoff /at/ uni-osnabrueck.de |
| Nora Freya Lindemann |
 | Nora is a research assistant and PhD student in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. Working with critical theories of the digital, feminist science and technology studies, and post-anthropocentric theory, her research focuses on the individual and collective implications of social chatbots and language technologies. In her dissertation, she develops a post-anthropocentric, power-aware ethics of chatbots. Trained in Cognitive Science and Liberal Arts and Sciences, she has a highly interdisciplinary background in critical theories, gender and critical race studies, science and technology studies, as well as neuro and data ethics. |
| E-Mail: norafreya.lindemann /at/ uni-osnabrueck.de |
| Paul Schütze |
 | Paul is a research assistant and doctoral student in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group. In his current research and teaching he is interested in the societal impacts and ethical challenges of digital technologies as well as in social philosophy of the climate crisis. Particularly, in his PhD thesis he is interested in how AI technologies are structurally connected to the climate crisis. His work focuses on critical social philosophy, ethics of artificial intelligence, philosophy of the climate crisis, philosophy of technology and media studies. |
| E-Mail: paul.schuetze /at/ uni-osnabrueck.de |
| Jan-Philipp Siebold |
 | Jan-Philipp Siebold is a research assistant in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. After finishing his BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a specialisation in Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy as well as Cultural and Media studies, he is currently completing his MA in Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on French Social Philosophy, Critical Theory and Philosophy of Technology with a special interest in power, subjectivity and affectivity in digital media cultures and AI systems. |
| E-Mail: jan.siebold /at/ uni-osnabrueck.de |
| Annemarie Witschas |
 | Annemarie has been a member of the research group since 2021. With an interdisciplinary background in Cognitive Science, her expertise encompasses both AI and critical philosophy. Her interests include various power differentials in the digital realm, ranging from the impact of AI technologies in pornography, to exploring how AI discourse impacts emancipatory collective futures thinking. She currently works in our MWK-funded project “Predicted Futures?”, in which she collaborates with several cultural institutions and local high schools, bridging critical research and public outreach. She is further pursuing an additional Master’s degree in Degrowth at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, as an opportunity to dive deeper into anti-colonial theories and post-capitalist economics. |
| E-Mail: awitschas /at/ uos.de |
| Anna Kraher |
 | Anna Kraher is a research assistant in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. Her research and artistic practice focus on power dynamics within technologies, especially on the relationships between predictive analytics, temporalities, and just futures. She studied Design & Computation, Computer Science and Gender Studies in Berlin. |
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| Elena Herold |
 | Elena is a student assistant in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, where she also completed her Bachelor’s degree. In her bachelor thesis she investigated the potential of word embeddings to capture connotations of politically loaded language. Currently Elena is pursuing a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science, where she is approaching the topic of artificial intelligence from a philosophical and technical perspective. |
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| Melissa Schnabel |
| Melissa is a student assistant in the research group Ethics and Critical Theories of AI at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. She is studying Cognitive Science and is especially interested in Human-Computer-Interaction and the links between technology and society. |
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| Hedye Tayebi Jazayeri |
 | Hedye is a student assistant in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. She is pursuing her Master’s in Cognitive Science, focusing on how philosophical and scientific discourses intersect with questions of social justice. She is particularly interested in the critical examination of AI technologies through a feminist lens. |
| E-Mail: htayebijazay /at/ uni-osnabrueck.de |
| Andrea Katz |
 | Andrea works as a secretary in the Ethics and Critical Theories of AI research group. Originally, she completed a professional training in banking and has been working in the administrative service of the Osnabrück University since 2019. |
| E-Mail: office-muehlhoff /at/ uni-osnabrueck.de |
Former members
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| Marte Henningsen | Jonas Niehus | |
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| Gert Goeminne | Jona Lemke |
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| Corinna Balkow | Anastasija Kocic |
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| Per Gülzow | Karla Baublys |
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| Martin Pechmann | Mareike Lisker |
