The technologies of generative AI are increasingly penetrating the social and political world. Not merely in the direct sense that AI models are being deployed to govern difficult problems – from decisions on the battlefield to responses to pandemic – but because generative AI is shaping and delimiting the politics of what can be known and actioned in the world. The machine learning algorithm is leaving the trace of its technical worldview in the political spaces of people, communities, objects, and scenes. This is a new and distinctive political logic: it remodels and aligns social and political relationships to make them fit the abstractions of machine learning models. The latent spaces and embedding spaces of AI are becoming present in the actual lived spaces of our world. In this zero-shot world, the machine’s capacity to act on unencountered data and tasks structures human societies of experimental probability, foreclosing the spaces of social organisation and resistance.

Louise Amoore is professor of political geography and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life at Durham University, UK. She is an ERC Laureate for her work on Algorithmic Societies: Ethical Life in the Machine Learning Age. Her books, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others (Duke, 2020) and Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability (Duke, 2013), set out the technological and political transformations of machine learning algorithms, biometrics, digital borders, and social justice. Louise is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Moderation: Ingmar Mundt (Weizenbaum Institute)

  • Lea Stöter (Universität Kassel) and Konstantin Lackner (Universität Kassel): „Scientific Rigour at Stake: The Effects of GenAI on HCI Research“ → Abstract 
  • Wenjuan Gao (Beihang University): „Beyond Tool Use: The WISE Framework for Researchers’ Generative AI Literacy in the Age of Digital Intelligence“ → Abstract 
  • Linda Nierling (KIT, ITAS), Angelina Sophie Dähms (KIT, ITAS) and Dana Mahr (KIT, ITAS): „Automated Governance in Science? The impact of Generative AI on Epistemic Authority and Responsibility“ → Abstract
  • Angelie Kraft (Weizenbaum Institute), Jochen Knaus (Weizenbaum Institute) and Sonja Schimmler (Weizenbaum Institute, Fraunhofer FOKUS, TU Berlin): „Open Science Practices and Epistemic Diversity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence“ → Abstract
  • Juni Schindler (University of Zurich): „ICLR vs. LLMs: Investigating the Role of Generative AI in the Peer Review Process of ICLR 2026“ → Abstract

Moderation: Christine Gerber (WZB | Berlin Social Science Center)

  • Sebastian Piraces (Digi Labor): „From DIY to AI: Independent Musicians, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reconfiguration of Cultural Work in Brazil“ → Abstract
  • Angela Graf (bidt) and Niina Zuber (bidt): „All Remains the Same While Everything Changes?! Generative AI, Creativity, and Professional Identity in Advertising Agencies“ → Abstract 
  • Georg von Richthofen (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society), Sonja Köhne (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) and Maja Golf-Papez (University of Sussex): “ Adapting to Generative AI in Creative Work: A Technological Frames Perspective on Creative Advertising“ → Abstract 
  • Annette Zimmermann (University of Wisconsin-Madison / Weizenbaum Institute / University of Bayreuth): „Win-win Exploitation and Creative Labor“ → Abstract

Moderation: Gabriel Bartl (Weizenbaum Institute)

  • Anna Thieser (Columbia University), Jack LaViolette (Columbia University) and Gil Eyal (Columbia University): „AI Safety as a Space between Fields“ → Abstract 
  • Stefan Baack (Independent, Der Spiegel, Stanford University), Christo Buschek (DER SPIEGEL) and Maty Bohacek (Stanford University): „The knowledge valued by AI companies: An analysis of benchmarks used to advertise GenAI models“ → Abstract
  • Susanne Förster (Paderborn University): „From Task Verification to Capability Claims: A Genealogy of Benchmarking Practices as Epistemic Infrastructure“ → Abstract 
  • David Hartmann (Weizenbaum Institute), Manuel Tonneau (University of Oxford),  Angelie Kraft (Weizenbaum Institute), LK Seiling (Weizenbaum Institute), Dimitri Staufer (TU Berlin) , Pieter Delobelle (KU Leuven and Pleias), Jan Fillies , Anna Ricarda Luther (Universität Bremen), Jan Batzner (Weizenbaum Institute), and  Mareike Lisker (HTW Berlin): „Bye Bye Perspective API: Lessons for Measurement Infrastructure in NLP, CSS and LLM Evaluation“ → Abstract

Vertreter*innen und Aktivist*innen der deutschen Zivilgesellschaft diskutieren Strategien und Möglichkeiten, um soziotechnische Zukunftsvisionen zum Wohle der Allgemeinheit zu gestalten. Gibt es demokratische Zukunftsvisionen jenseits einer Welt, die von den großen Technologiekonzernen geprägt ist? Welche Rolle spielen Regulierung, Demokratisierung und Protest, um diese zu verwirklichen?

mit Aline Blankertz (Structural Integrity), Julia Schneider aka Doc J Snyder (Künstlerin und Wissenschaftlerin), Aljoscha Burchhardt (DFKI) und Nina Scholz (freie Journalistin)

Moderatorin: Friederike Rohde (BTU Cottbus)

Die Paneldiskussion findet auf deutsch statt.