What is AI Literacy?
10. Dec
Claus Pias, Simon Roloff (Leuphana) Stefan Ullrich (Weizenbaum-Institut Berlin) and Dan Verständig (Bielefeld University)
- 10.12.2024 / 6-8 pm
- C40.530
- Claus Pias, Simon Roloff (Leuphana), Stefan Ullrich (Weizenbaum-Institut Berlin) und Dan Verständig (Bielefeld University)
Recent efforts to impart competencies and skills in relation to artificial intelligence, which also affect the restructuring of Leuphana’s course offer, are often subsumed under the term of “AI literacy”. We ask – particularly from a cultural and media studies perspective – which implications come with this educational concept; given that the term of ‘literacy’, i.e. the ability to read and write, is burdened with its own history and is now positioned in the frame of an urgent demand directed at the subject cultures in non-technical disciplines. But who decides which competencies and skills are relevant in relation to AI and what shape the practice of a technically oriented transfer of knowledge should take? The panel brings together perspectives from computer science, educational science, and media studies, to fathom the opportunities and limitations of an AI-supported education and to define the role of the university within this digital transformation.
Dan Verständig is a researcher and teacher of media education. He focuses on learning and educational processes that are located within the horizon of digitality. More precisely, he examines pedagogical fields of action, taking into account social inequality as well as creative practices in dealing with the digital. The research is thus located at the intersection of educational and media theory as well as algorithm research.
Stefan Ullrich is computer scientist and philosopher and critically examines the impact of ubiquitous information technology systems on society. Until 2022, he was a research group leader at the Weizenbaum Institute. Currently, he works in the AI Ideas Workshop for Environmental Protection of the BMUV. He is is co-chair of the Commission for Ethics in Research at the TU Berlin, he is a member of the Commission of Experts for the Third Equality Report of the Federal Government and deputy spokesperson of the specialist group “Informatics and Ethics” of the German Informatics Society (GI e.V.).
Simon Roloff works on historical contemporary media technologies and their effects on cultural practice. In particular, he focuses on philologies of computer code and artificial intelligence. He was junior professor at the University of Hildesheim and research assistant at the ICAM at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is currently supporting the submission of an application for the structural development of the “Leuphana AI Campus (LAICA)”.
Claus Pias works on the history of (digital) media and the knowledge and cultural history of digitization. He was director of the DFG research group on “Media Cultures of Computer Simulation” and co-founder of the “Center for Digital Cultures” at Leuphana University Lüneburg.