Call for Applications

Student Panel: "Technological Futures Now: Racism, Imperialism, and the Surrogate Human Effect"

How and why is the relationship between freedom and unfreedom changing in our technologized present? And what visions of the future can we imagine through feminist approaches?

We will explore these questions over the course of the symposium Technological Futures Now: Racism, Imperialism, and the Surrogate Human Effect (June 30/ July 1 at CST, University of Bonn) together with Visiting Professors Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora and international guest speakers (Nishant Shah, Erin McElroy and others, tba). 

Call for Applications:

Junior Fellowship Position

Call for Applications: Junior Fellowship Position in the project "Desirable Digitalisation. Rethinking A.I. for Just and Sustainable Futures" of the University of Bonn 

Start: as soon as possible, ideally by August 2025
Duration: until March 2027, possibility to extend until August 2027

The Tucano project has won 1st place in the Most Interesting Results Competition at Bonn University's High Performance Computing (HPC) services. The competition occurred during the 1st anniversary event of Marvin, the university’s state-of-the-art Tier 3 HPC cluster, where researchers gathered to showcase their work powered by Marvin’s computational capabilities. Tucano, a series of natively pre-trained large language models for Portuguese, is fully open-source and was developed at the University of Bonn with the support of Marvin. 

Job Offer:

WHF 8h/week – for the development and support of "Feminist AI"

The Center for Science and Thought is looking for a WHF as soon as possible to support the development and work of the interdisciplinary network "Feminist AI."
Application deadline: 27.02.

Call for Papers: 

Conference "Standardization of AI Ethics: Stakeholders, Values, and Profit"

With the EU AI Act entering into force under the New Legislative Framework, the standardization of AI technologies transitions from a conceptual goal to a legal mandate. In recent years, efforts have been made to evaluate the societal impacts of AI technolo- gies beyond mere legal safeguards, aiming to “operationalize,” “standardize,” and even “certify” ethics. At the same time, actual ethical concerns regarding the operationalization of ethics have grown. In the forthcoming conference, our main questions focus on hidden stakeholders, values, and how profit-making might interfere with certifying and standardizing AI technologies. 

New Interdisciplinary Network Approved

The interdisciplinary network 'Feminist AI' at the University of Bonn will
start in January 2025 with the aim to strengthen the networking and visibility
of female researchers at the University of Bonn and to promote a critical
engagement with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

At the fall meeting of the "Deutsche Medienfrauen" ("German Media Women"), Dr. Julia Maria Mönig discussed current cases of discrimination and short-term problems of artificial intelligence applications, as well as the potential opportunities offered by the technology, under the question “Disadvantage pre-programmed? - The gender problem of AI”.

Dr. Nicholas Kluge Corrêa, Postdoctoral AI Researcher at the Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, was recently invited by the OECD to participate in the OECD-African Union (AU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Dialogue 2.0 – AI in Africa: From strategy to implementation.

To stimulate the future of open development of neural text generation in Portuguese, Nicholas Kluge Corrêa and colleagues present both GigaVerbo, a concatenation of deduplicated Portuguese text corpora amounting to 200 billion tokens, and Tucano, a series of decoder-transformers natively pre-trained in Portuguese.