For the Public

Berlin Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society

Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Berlin is currently facing numerous challenges, ranging from the modernization of public administration to the adaptation to climate change, from traffic planning to the regulation of the housing market, the implementation of an efficient health care system and creating incentives for a more sustainable lifestyle with the involvement of citizens. In this context, the effective

External Event

Berlin University Alliance’s Open Space Event on AI and Ethics (in German)

Our members Dafna Burema and Jonas Frenkel will take part at "THE OPEN KNOWLEDGE LAB" Berlin as speakers, which thrives on active exchange between science, business, politics, and urban society. The BUA OPEN SPACE salon series provides a platform for dialogue on current social issues and networking: impulses from science and subsequent discussions provide deeper

External Event

Berlin Brains – Restless gaze, stable vision: SCIoI members Martin Rolfs and Nina Hanning @Zeiss Grand Planetarium Berlin

Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin

Live Event at Zeiss-Großplanetarium (Zeiss Grand Planetarium), Berlin with SCIoI memebers Martin Rolfs and Nina Hanning, titled "Restless gaze, stable vision: The camera work of our eyes." About: Our eyes are restless; they constantly orient themselves toward new aspects of the environment. If they were cameras, the recorded film would be dizzying. And yet our

External Event

Oliver Brock at TED AI Vienna 2024

SCIoI spokesperson Oliver Brock will give talk about artificial intelligence (AI) in Vienna (Austria), where, for the first time, a TED series of talks will be hosted, to foster the understanding of AI innovation. Wants to join? Buy the tickets here.

Distinguished Speaker Series

Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), “The cultural and ecological nature of intelligence”

Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

How do we reconcile the extraordinary success of the human species with the apparent stupidity of people and organizations? How can we understand the transformation of humans from foraging apes to urban clerks, without any appreciable change in physiology? No one has definitive answers to these questions, but we begin to answer them by appreciating

Thursday Morning Talk

Hideki Kozima (Tohuku University), “Child-robot interactions for therapeutic and educational research and practices”

Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Abstract: Research in developmental robotics includes modeling human intelligence and the process of its emergence in robotic systems. A novel research paradigm in psychology is emerging in conjunction with such efforts regarding reproducing human-specific communication abilities in robots and observing how children interact with robots with various communication capabilities. I will discuss such research trends

Distinguished Speaker Series

Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr University Bochum): “The evolution of brain and cognition: A wild hypothesis”

Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Onur Güntürkün is regarded as a pioneer of biologically based psychology. The aim of his work is to find out how perception, thought and action arise in the brain. He is interested in diverse topics, such as motor learning, fear, risk-taking behavior and even kissing. In his research, Güntürkün combines psychological, biological and neuroanatomical aspects