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- December 5, 2022
AI-Humanity-Society: LMU-TAU Workshop for Early-Career Researchers
Introduction to the workshop topic
The interface of AI and the humanities\social sciences\arts is a remarkably dynamic and increasingly critical site. Big data and machine learning have the capacity to revolutionize research about humans, their social formations, and their cultural practices, while scholarship in the “soft” sciences is fundamental for understanding the potential consequences of changes imposed by technological advances. For a new generation of researchers in sociology, law, history, the arts, cultural studies, philosophy, political sciences, management, and other related fields, thinking about the uses and challenges of AI is an urgent and exciting task.
Summary
More than 20 young researchers from LMU Munich and Tel Aviv University participated in this interdisciplinary workshop held at LMU Munich form December 5-8, 2023. Faculty members of both institutions from various academic disciplines had worked since January 2022 on a truly interdisciplinary approach to this wide topic. Young Scientists and PhD candidates from the Social Science, Humanities, Business, Law as well as Computer science shared their research projects and jointly raised new research questions in the fields of decision-making processes, education and learning, public policy, to name only a few.
The workshop was opened by the coordinator of the LMU-TAU strategic partnership, Prof. Dieter Lüst and by Prof. Biagini, Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity at LMU Munich. Eric Zimmermann, Director of the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development (GIF) warmly welcomed the participants to the workshop. The academic program was complemented by some social activities such as Baverian welcome dinner and a guided city tour organized by the International Office of LMU and kindly sponsored by GIF. At the end of the workshop the participants had the opportunity to visit the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) which hosts the “SuperMuc” one of the most advanced supercomputing systems in Germany. Participants found the workshop inspiring, enriching and interesting, as well as well organized. The interdisciplinarity allowed participants to get insights into fields of research they usually do not engage with. The participants emphasized that they would be interested in a reciprocity visit to TAU, and to continue with a periodically online meeting to keep the momentum going.
Contact at LMU Munich
Susanne Rößler
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Internationale Angelegenheiten
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
susanne.roessler@lmu.de
Contact at Tel Aviv University
Sharon Ziv Kafri
Director, International Development
Tel Aviv University International
Tel Aviv, Israel 6997801
sharonziv@tauex.tau.ac.il
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