For her idea of an approach that analyzes and reduces discrimination in AI language models, Anke Stoll from the Computational Communication Science Group at TU Ilmenau has been awarded a prize in the ideas competition of the Civic Innovation Platform (CIP), a project of the Denkfabrik Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft of the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. With the prize money of 20,000 euros, she now has the chance to further develop the project together with the participating partner institutions.
The Internet is a central place for open democratic discourse. At the same time, however, there is a need for action with regard to hate speech and discrimination that many users experience online. How could artificial intelligence be used here for the common good?
The TU Ilmenau, Liquid Democracy e.V., Beyond AI Collective e.V. and the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy had the right answer to this question and submitted their idea to the Civic Innovation Platform's "Together it's AI" competition: the development of an approach to analyze and reduce discrimination in AI speech models.
At re:publica Berlin, the festival for the digital society, Anke Stoll, research associate at the Computational Communication Science Gropu, and her colleagues have now received an award from the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. They will receive up to 20,000 euros in start-up funding to further develop their project "AI-supported moderation of online discussions with low discrimination". Anke Stoll:
Discrimination and intransparency of AI are currently much discussed. We are aware of the problem, but now we have to work on strategies to solve it. It won't be easy.
Anke Stoll has been working at the Computational Communication Science Group headed by Prof. Emese Domahidi since April 2023, where she conducts research on AI for media platforms and in social media as well as on machine learning methods for communication science. In her dissertation at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, she developed AI-based software for facilitating participation processes.
The Civic Innovation Platform (CIP) is a project of the Denkfabrik Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. The goal is to bring together technical and social competencies in order to jointly develop good ideas for human-centered public welfare-oriented AI applications.
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